I couldn't resist... Justin Timberlake released his new track yesterday: "Suit & Tie." It was produced by Timbaland and features a verse performed by Jay-Z. In the song, JT professes his love of dressing up and Jay-Z waxes about how…
As Vesper Lynd famously said to 007 in Casino Royale: "There are dinner jackets and dinner jackets. This is the latter." While there was a whole lot of handsome at the 70th Annual Golden Globes last night, there was a…
The two-hour Season 3 premiere of Downton Abbey was all about the threat of change in the dawn of a 1920s world outside of the snow globe that is Downton. The unstoppable changes in the way people lived forced people…
As we ring in a new year, one can't help but reflect on the year past. 2012 was certainly not dull. Like every year, it was a year of hellos and goodbyes, ups and downs, victories and losses, ins and…
The tragedy in Newtown last Friday has ignited a lot of thoughts, ideas and feelings about assault weapons in many Americans over the past week, myself included. The magnitude of the issue's importance is undeniable. Of all of the things…
A few weeks ago, while visiting my friend George Bliss, owner of Hudson Urban Bicycles, I had the pleasure of meeting photographer Billy Powers. For 11 years, Billy was a photographer and art director at Time Magazine and is currently…
https://vimeo.com/51962571 This is by far the most concise, articulate and easy-to-follow video demonstration of how to tie a bow tie that I have come across. It was beautifully produced by The Hill-Side, a fantastic Brooklyn-based outfit for men's accessories made…
If you shopped for menswear exclusively in Hell's Kitchen, you'd be limited to tank tops, disposable club clothes, deep v-necks tees that drop to the navel and lollipop colored shirts, shorts and pants from the Skittles Collection. For smart, handsome,…
A friend recently asked me whether or not thick, horn-rimmed glasses would be good for him or if they had become passé. Since the powerful influence of Mad Men's style started creeping into the mainstream, inspiring men even in the…
