via The Libertine. 60 Suits of Gray: Esquire catches up with Bond's costume designer to talk suits—the opening sequence alone required 60. [Esquire]. Sand and ...
This sort of shit never happens to us: 23 candid photos of the Rolling Stones on their 1965 American tour were recently discovered in an unmarked box at a Southern California estate sale. As for our favorite of the bunch, it’s a toss-up between the above and this photo featuring a pen...
have come up with a clever instructional video that does just that: using stop-motion, a rather amiable chambray bow tie talks you through tying himself. The real genius behind this video that lifts it head and shoulders above any other bow tie how-to you’ll find online is that the ha...
Consider the turtleneck. It’s a statement, for sure—and not the easiest one to make without verging on creepy Euro-beanik, or for lack of a better word: dweeby. The trick is to avoid some common pitfalls—wearing something too gauzy, too tight or with a maniacally steadfast gaze . Ther...
A superstorm… the Frankenstorm… Sandy. Whatever you’re calling the hurricane headed toward the Northeast this weekend, things are promising to get very wet, very quickly. So to weather this storm—and the ever-looming danger of torrential downpour this time of year—we’ve come up with a...
We usually take a pretty hard line against phones at dinner , but a new trick just popped up that gives us hope for the future. It’s called a phone stack , and it’s a buzzing, flashing reminder of every phone-etiquette rule the world seems to have forgotten. It works like this: as you...
This week, the music video/dance phenomenon that is “Gangnam Style,” from Korean pop’s prodigal man-child Psy, has entered the record books as the most watched Internet video of all time. We’ll link it here , in the rare event you’ve just woken from a long coma, but here’s the gist: a...
And then there’s “Tom Waits”: the guy who took Tom’s place in the early ’80s, devoting himself to portraying a cartoonishly outsized carnival barker version of Tom Waits. This guy got going with the unlikely help of Sylvester Stallone, who cast him as a piano player in Paradise Alley ...
In the grand tradition of the Pop-Up Flea (co-helmed by our very own editorial director), the folks from Pierrepont Hicks and Well Spent are putting on a Midwestern fete of Americana. The daylong bazaar of selvage, duck canvas and other ruggedly made-in-America-only gear will be hosti...
