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Book Review: Made in Paris

May 04, 2017

by Réginald-Jérôme de Mans.   Coincident with the widespread realization in Europe and the United States that almost everything they consume was made elsewhere came a movement to buy domestic produ...

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Glenn O'Brien, 1947-2017

April 11, 2017

by Réginald-Jérôme de Mans.   In recent days, the art, music and, not least, fashion worlds have all mourned the unexpected passing of Glenn O’Brien. The dust of his life path, even before one read...

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Alternative Style Icon: Robert Badinter

March 28, 2017

by Réginald-Jérôme de Mans.  The last weeks have taught the world more than it ever wanted to know about the expensive clothing tastes of the French political class. Conservative presidential candi...

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Competing Souvenirs

March 16, 2017

by Réginald-Jérôme de Mans.   I am in my favorite city. Its name, for the moment, does not matter. Favorite cities generally aren’t the ones we actually live in. We save favorites for places that w...

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Reaction: Edmund de Waal's "During the Night"

December 15, 2016

by Réginald-Jérôme de Mans.   The concept of curation has been appropriated by pretentious pseudointellectuals outside of art (no, I do not consider #menswear an art). The Kunsthistorisches Museum,...

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On Inspiration

November 29, 2016

by Réginald-Jérôme de Mans.   It took me seven years staring at it on my bookshelf to finally open Paul Smith’s you can find inspiration in everything* (*and if you can’t, look again). It was, I no...

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Book Bites- For What Ails You

November 15, 2016

by Réginald-Jérôme de Mans.    Recently I’ve been struggling with writer’s block over multiple pieces for No Man Walks Alone. My forum admirers who have criticized my “rambling flow of thought or s...

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Book Review: Christopher Breward's The Suit

November 03, 2016

by Réginald-Jérôme de Mans.   Like the decade-old book of the same name by Machiavelli scholar and erstwhile seduction specialist Nicholas Antongiavanni, Christopher Breward’s 2016 The Suit is that...

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