The Menswear Report:...

FALL 2012′S BIGGEST RUNWAY TRENDS #1: Faux  Trot Making fur relevant for menswear is a tricky task to say the least. Beyond the occasional sable trim on a pair of black leather gloves, we men aren’t too keen on clothing that spent its past life wandering large tracts of Artic...

Weekly Inspiration

Five things that are inspiring, confounding and otherwise engaging me in the world of fashion this week….   #1: Desert Heat I’m obsessed with this recent editorial in WWD. Photographed by Dean Isidro in a landscape reminiscent of 127 hours, the imagery (and the model) makes a...

Weekly Inspiration

Five things that are inspiring, confounding and otherwise engaging me in the world of fashion this week….   #1: Dragon Week Takes NYC Affinity China, a start up that essentially operates as a concierge service for China’s new upper crust, kicked off the Year of the Dragon with...

Weekly Inspiration

Five things that are inspiring, confounding and otherwise engaging me in the world of fashion this week….   #1: “The Golden Key“ Sea of Shoes blogger Jane Aldridge is no stranger to whimsical looks. Nor is she averse to donning a tutu, baby blue tube top and Marc Jacobs...

Trend Evolution: Ani...

Tracking the growth of a fashion trend from its prenatal stage to its eventual overexposure is not always an easy task. Designers may seem to operate with creative autonomy, yet there is still an air of collusion that hangs over fashion weeks from season to season, the hints of a great...

Weekly Inspiration

Five things that are inspiring, confounding and otherwise engaging me in the world of fashion this week….   #1: Pitti Uomo Street Style Shots The biannual Pitti Uomo menswear conventions always have the best street style. This Fall-Winter season, Florence was all awash in dapper...

Looking Back

“New Year’s Eve is like every other night; there is no pause in the march of the universe, no breathless moment of silence among created things that the passage of another twelve months may be noted; and yet no man has quite the same thoughts this evening that come with the coming...

Rodarte Couture + El...

Elle Fanning, Dakota’s younger sis and the most recent teenage trendoid to enter designer muse status(she fits in nicely alongside cohorts Tavi Genvison and Hailee Steinfeld, they of the Miu Miu campaigns and Marc Jacob’s associations) was snapped in a very normal, very...