Regular visitors to this site may remember the first person I ever interviewed on here was my friend Simon, better known as menswear illustrator extraordinaire Deliberate Indifference. That was a little over a year ago now. Since then, his already dedicated following and laundry list of collaborators have kept on growing in lockstep with his […]
Image credit: Wikimedia Commons / Public domain Gregory Peck’s friend, Liza Minnelli once described him as ‘the ultimate movie star’ saying ‘there’s nobody more handsome or more gentle or more romantic on the screen’. Indeed, in his day, Peck was a full-blown phenomenon. His acting career spanned six decades and produced such classics as Spellbound […]
Image is my own / All rights reserved As a child of the 1990s, I’ve been tying sweatshirts and flannels around my waist for as long as I can remember. It’s a practice that has become as seasonally inevitable as blossoms blooming and leaves turning. When those days arrive when it gets too warm to […]
Image credit: Wikimedia Commons / Public domain Over the last few months, after somehow going three decades without ever seeing a single Akira Kurosawa movie, at the behest of the exasperated cinephiles in my life I’ve finally been chipping away at ‘The Emperor’s’ oeuvre. And while admittedly a love of all things Kurosawa still evades […]
Image credit: Thomas Rome / CC BY 2.0 Today marks the 35th anniversary of the release of Spike Lee’s first feature-length joint, the 1986 classic She’s Gotta Have It. The film is about the young, Brooklyn-based designer Nola Darling (Tracy Camilla Johns) and the three men jostling for her affection, including one Mars Blackmon, played […]
Having written earlier this week about Michael Jordan, I was put in mind of another North Carolinian who adopted Chicago as his new home in the form of the photojournalist John H. White. White was born the son of a preacher in 1945 in Lexington, NC. As a boy, one of White’s teachers told him […]
Image credit: Joel Muniz on Unsplash Where does one begin when talking about what is arguably the most important shoe line in the history of sneakers? Starting with a little context seems as good a place as any. Difficult as it may be to imagine today, there was a time when Michael Jordan was not […]
Image credit: Scottish National Gallery / Public domain Recently, I came across a bit of menswear marginalia that caught my interest. I was reading James Boswell’s London Journal 1762-1973 (in tacit acknowledgement that I will never get around to reading his substantially longer and more famous Life of Samuel Johnson) when I discovered in an […]
Via a series of intimate portraits kept as a record of his clothing choices throughout his life, Matthäus Schwarz invented the fit pic 500 years ago. Ansel Adams may have been best known for his landscape photography, but the man sure knew how to put together an outfit. The clothing staples we wear most often […]