If you care to worship the cult of Alexander McQueen, the house has offered the latest iteration of their famed Skull umbrella. The signature Skull is rendered in a bold, bright azure resin for Spring/Summer 2014, and is probably the only reason you’ll pony up $565 for the otherwise quite traditional rain gear. A more detailed […]

Tom Waits and Don Lane have really bad screen chemistry. Lane’s sincere admiration and Waits’s well meaning sacrilege clash like Jesus in the Parthenon. Of course neither is a holy deity, but Waits is more 40s screen star gone wrong than ever before, while Lane sort of acts on as Mother Hen, or as Tom […]

One of the attention-getting pieces from the always excellent Junya Watanabe’s MAN collection for Comme des Garcons’ Spring / Summer 2012 are these Duck Boots, slightly modified from the norm with a ridged gum sole — as opposed to the more traditional ‘chain-tread’. The luxury rain shoes come in two colorways, green (above) and tan/brown, […]

Orvis’ Ultimate Travel Jacket is just that — the ultimate in efficiency and convenience for travelers. Designed with versatility at a premium, it doesn’t hurt that it has a great rugged look as well. With a total of 23 outside pockets and 5 inside pockets, the Ultimate Travel Jacket can hold just about anything and […]

Most umbrellas have the personality of a spoon — ever functional, but infinitely plain and unremarkable. But if you’re the type of person who likes his accessories to have some bite, then you may want to check out Archer Adams London‘s Westminster Umbrella. Fashioned with a silver-plated handle and of quality materials — including Swarovski […]

I actually love rainy days. Something about the gloom sets my brainwaves in a warm and thoughtful vibration, and other than wet socks I see no downside to rain whatsoever. Of course I live in Los Angeles, where we get about  7 days of rain per year. If I lived in the Pacific Northwest, I […]

This Samurai Umbrella is brilliant in its simplicity and pretty straightforward in execution. When it rains you can traipse around the city like a fancy lad afraid of drops falling on your head, but when it dries up store the umbrella over your back like Toshiro Mifune all drunk and angry like. Who needs a […]

Sleepy Sun, the fuzzed out, neo-psychedelic rock band from San Francisco (actually, from parts of California far-flung), is resuscitating a sound that hasn’t been quite the same since the transitional mid-70s, when peace signs were no longer cool, tie dye was forced to the back of the closet to make room for leathers and steel, […]