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On Sustainability

January 07, 2020
by Réginald-Jérôme de Mans.   The theme of sustainability and ethical consumption has now reached the #menswear magazine and blogging world. In brief, it manifests as a call to buy better and to bu...
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On the Signature

December 31, 2019
by Alexander Freeling.   In Britain many things arrive late. New films, trends, technology. The trains, of course, but this is a valuable source of bland conversation for a notoriously non-confront...
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On Holidaywear

December 22, 2019
by Réginald-Jérôme de Mans.  Catching up with an old colleague last week, I noticed that this intense, brilliant force of nature, who has dedicated years of her life unflinchingly working to combat...
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Do Both

December 17, 2019
by Claude T. Hector.   I recently returned to work at a retail suit shop and since my return, many a potential shopper has asked me how they should be dressing at work now that most of their worksp...
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Arnys et moi and Me

December 10, 2019
by Réginald-Jérôme de Mans.   How do you remember something you never knew? The orphaned opening words of Arnys et moi, journalist Philippe Trétiack’s memoir of the late and legendary Paris shop Ar...
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Heritage

November 29, 2019
by David Isle.   Some people embrace their family name; others attempt to escape it, but they rarely succeed. Clark Rockefeller was of this latter type. Scion of fabled wealth, collector of rare ar...
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Thoughts On A New Gilded Age

November 19, 2019
by Réginald-Jérôme de Mans.  On the heels of an article announcing that the wealthy have so much money they do not know what to do with it, a friend showed me a hotel bar’s offer for a $450 sidecar...
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It Ain't Ralph, Though

November 12, 2019
by Daniel Penny.   This November marks the 50th anniversary of Ralph Lauren’s juggernaut clothing, home, and lifestyle brand, Polo. What began as a little tie business known making for napkin-sized...
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