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It’s a literary job hazard- Easy puns. I hate it sometimes but will allow this exception as my segue way into my next point. Judging from their pop up store display of subtle, elegant and immensely comfortable menswear basics – The Hentsch Man Summer 2011 collection is real easy on the eyes. While it’s true that […]
July 12, 2011
Best known for their cross cultural inspirations in music, fashion and art, Viet and Japanese designers Thuy Pham and Miko Aoki founded United Bamboo in 1998. With a relationship stretching close to 10 years, the one time architecture student Pham wrked with Aoki, a New York Fashion Institute of Technology alumn at Bernadete Corporation; Even […]
June 24, 2011
Canali Spring Summer 2012 Menswear Collection Taking visual cues from Indian tunics, the Spring-Summer 2012 collection of fine Italian menswear from Canali is a wardrobe of fitted suits and well cut blazers. Classically elegant garments available in dusty rose tones, orange and pink evoke for me the spirit but none of the gaudiness of Miami Vice. […]
June 23, 2011
Dress Above Your Paygrade with Uniqlo Fall Winter 2011 Uniqlo has been a great equaliser when it comes to the style-affluence divide. Remarkably affordable, the Uniqlo Fall Winter 2011 lookbook gives us many options for dressing above your paygrade and although I’m not a big fan of their styling in their Fall Winter campaign shoots, […]
June 20, 2011
The Monsieur Curates: Prada Spring Summer 2012 Men’s Collection I’ve never been a fan of golf (it’s a good walk wasted) but I am loving Miuccia Prada’s take on golf apparel and it reflects majestically in her Spring Summer 2012 men’s collection. While the high trend factor tends to go against the baseline Monsieur ethos […]
June 19, 2011
Debuting at Milano Collezioni in 1986, Giuliano Fujiwara is a brand that shares synonymy with minimalism. This year, Giuliano Fujiwara celebrates its 25th anniversary and with Masataka Matsumura leading the creative direction of the company since 2005, we’ve often been treated with layered looks and while Matsumura is often a sartorial illusionist, he is also […]
June 12, 2011
My annual quest for such a garment got its kick-start in late May when a friend e-mailed me a link to a site called Socialite Life, which featured a folio of 23 photos breathlessly headlined “Jude Law: Shirtless in Cannes!” Squinting rakishly in the brilliant Mediterranean light, Jude looked worldly, post-coital, regnant. When you clicked on […]
June 7, 2011
Corny? Yes. Puns are the lowest form of wit but please spare a Monsieur his weakness and his penchant for cheap throwaway headlines at 11.15pm after celebrating his boss’s birthday at one of the best restaurants in Melbourne along Burwood Road- The Undertaker (yes, we ate in a converted mortuary. No, it wasn’t thematic and […]
June 6, 2011
It’s winter time and during a recent cold (weather-wise, the people are friendly) trip to East Europe, I walked into a Hugo Boss boutique in Berlin if only to check out the latest collection. Know what I found? Hugo Boss has done away with working buttons on the sleeves and that’s outright sacrilegious- It looks […]
June 5, 2011
Percival is a relative newcomer to the scene and in this their third season of designing uniquely British men’s style, Percival’s latest collection has found a fan in me. While some pieces in their collection are immensely trendy, Percival has chosen lasting fabrics cut and created with luxurious garments with contrast linings that have made […]
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