In my decade-long career as a web designer, I've never been able to get used to the sheer lack of efficiency in the corporate process when building a project. From gathering assets, to upholding schedule milestones, to meeting deadlines, to…
Baz Luhrmann's deafeningly-hyped interpretation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby is many things. It's excessive, it's artificial and it is, indeed, visually arresting. And it's a great study on a guy who works so tragically hard to acquire all…
A reader named Mike had a simple but important question about a basic: dress shirts. More specifically, he is a young guy just starting out with a new career, with little-to-no experience with dressing up. For Mike, this is an…
Dressed for work, I pedaled at a leisurely pace up a very busy 6th Avenue at the height of the congested work day. I wanted to see how hard/easy/fast/slow the bicycle felt as a legit way to commute around midtown…
Among the many things that bar me from movie stardom, one of those preventatives is the fact that I have a monkey head. Typically, movie stars have larger heads when taken in proportion to the rest of their bodies. My…
Michael Bastian, one of the most worthwhile menswear designers working today, collaborated with UNIQLO to make a line of handsome and affordable polo shirts that fit just the way they're supposed to. These incredibly stylish and accessible polos make perfect…
After a witchy winter, spring has sprung, including a little flirtation with 80º F earlier in the week. With the warmer weather come shorts and flip-flops, about which I have some definite feelings I express in this episode. And though…
Once upon a time, apparently even street thugs had a sense of occasion. A quick Google image search of men like Al Capone, Pretty Boy Floyd or John Dillinger will show you well-dressed criminals who brought a sense of flair…
The legendary (and hilarious) Creative Ambassador at Large for Barney's New York Simon Doonan discusses the somewhat accidental trajectory of his career, waxes philosophical on the the skewed perspective of gay people which makes many of them so creative, and…
For our whole lives, we’ve been trained to believe that certain things just cost what they cost. We just accept it without questioning it. It's a model that disrespects men who may have discerning tastes but not necessarily the means. In a post-crash, post-Occupy, 99% world, it's a model ripe for disruption.