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Craft as Design

March 25, 2019

by Alexander Freeling.    How do buildings resist gravity? Or, for that matter, strong winds, weathering, tectonic shudders, and the seasonal heat and ice? The modern answer has two parts: a scienc...

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Ralph at CFDA

March 22, 2019

by Daniel Penny.   In the opening pages of Civilization and Its Discontents, Sigmund Freud spends a great deal of time describing Rome. It’s meant as an elaborate metaphor to convey the variegated ...

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Alternative Style Icon: Floc'h

March 18, 2019

by Réginald-Jérôme de Mans.   I’m terrible at recognizing celebrities.  Friends who moved to LA quickly learned to pick out any of the A-, B-, C-, D- or Jason Patric-list who become, I am told, par...

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What's The Harm?

March 08, 2019

by Alexander Freeling.    Justice, when it comes, can be by act or omission. There are moments when the machinery of state moves to right inequity, and moments where it must relinquish power to do ...

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Alternative Style Icon: Takeshi Kaga

March 03, 2019

by Réginald-Jérôme de Mans.  For some reason, recent years have seen a surge of discussion of how people could be so gullible they believed the obvious distortions of so-called reality TV shows and...

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Karl Lagerfeld, 1933-2019

March 03, 2019

by Réginald-Jérôme de Mans.  His appearance, for the last forty years of his life, was alien, mannered, armored by various styles of outfit that were less uniforms than the carapace of some unique ...

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Unpacking

March 03, 2019

by Alexander Freeling.   Just as the return leg of a journey seems shorter, as if the mental energy has already been spent on the outlay, and now you are being pulled magnetically back home, unpack...

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On Respoke

March 03, 2019

by Réginald-Jérôme de Mans.  A reaction to the response of a friend.  That friend, the prolific #menswear blogger Dirnelli, frequently models his secondhand bespoke suits.  What he calls “respoke” ...

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