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Fit For Purpose

September 24, 2019

by Réginald-Jérôme de Mans.   A walk home after dinner at a favorite neighborhood restaurant. Heavy rain. Neighbors who had just fertilized their sizeable yard with manure, of all things in a city....

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On Proportion

September 17, 2019

by Alexander Freeling.   What does it mean to be perfectly proportioned? Is it possible? The biologist JBS Haldane wrote about species “being the right size.” What he meant was that in nature, the ...

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Activation Energy

September 10, 2019

by Réginald-Jérôme de Mans.   When I first told my parents I wanted a fountain pen, they laughed at me. A generation that had grown up learning to write on the scratchy, messy, finicky things could...

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Interview with Alain Fracassi of DoppiaA

September 03, 2019

No Man Walks Alone is delighted to be carrying DoppiaA. In this interview, designer Alain Fracassi explains his style philosophy.

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Book Review: Dapper Dan: Made in Harlem

August 27, 2019

by Réginald-Jérôme de Mans.   Many of the best clothing-industry memoirs, such as Martin Greenfield’s Measure of a Man, spend less time describing the writer’s time in the industry than they do the...

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Suits

August 12, 2019

by Réginald-Jérôme de Mans.  Both business and menswear have cycles, and sometimes the two coincide.   There was a recent minor media kerfuffle when Goldman Sachs, the most prestigious bank on Wall...

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Imagining Naples

August 06, 2019

by Alexander Freeling.   The machines do not work as intended. They are always on the border of total breakdown, held together more by ingenuity than mechanical integrity. “As time goes by, one beg...

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That Which Brings Joy

July 30, 2019

by Réginald-Jérôme de Mans.   Two children’s books come to mind when I think of Marie Kondo.  Fitting, too, as ever since she’s become a sprightly, life-simplifying phenomenon, people on the intern...

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