Ever since seeing Django Unchained over the holidays, we’ve had a lot of Quentin Tarantino on the brain. Not only did I watch Pulp Fiction again recently, but I already lined up Jackie Brown on the old Netflix queue. What can I say, it’s one of my favorites. But as good as all of the above […]
The second installment of our Best Of 2011 retrospective series focuses on the Top 10 Books of 2011, including photo-heavy coffee table books, research tomes and literature. From the history of menswear staples to Japanese art to modernist architecture to the appreciation of the well shaped derrière, there were a multitude of books published covering […]
The Ace Hotel New York’s signature plaid blanket is now available for purchase via their online shop for $150. Made exclusively for the Ace NYC by the established wool makers at Pendleton, the blankets are fashioned of pure virgin wool in a unique design specifically created for the New York hotel in Pendleton’s Oregon mills. […]
There’s no shaking the undeniable catchiness of Manchester Orchestra, the Alpharetta, Georgia band whose elegiacal “Simple Math” has taken over college radio. At first listen one could brush it off as a very capably written indie pop song, and you wouldn’t be wrong. But at second and third listens the track becomes an earworm, and […]
So apparently Richard Branson — you know, that Virgin billionaire that’s super cool because he jumps out of airplanes and circumnavigates the globe in a balloon — owns this ridiculous British Virgin Island where he has these crazy orgies and week-long bacchanalian parties. Called Necker Island, it’s basically the kind of paradise you’d think billionaires […]
Madman Mundt and the Elf breakdown Sofia Coppola’s latest, Somewhere. The film is out in limited release in the US on December 22nd. The Elf As I write this, there’s a little mantra running through my head: I WILL NOT BE SNARKY. I will not say that Sofia Coppola’s movies get made because her dad […]
You just have to love Seattle’s Blackbird boutique, which seems to always be stocked with the best curated items. Such as this Pendletone Loung Robe, a 100% virgin wool robe in a blue Beach Boys plaid fabric. The legendary Beach Boys wore Pendleton’s signature plaid shirts on the cover of their 1963 album Surfer Girl, […]
Maison Martin Margiela gives us another reason to look forward to some cold winter nights. A classic duffle coat lifted straight from old naval photograph, the camel color reversible offers the option of a camel color plaid on the inside. Made in Italy from luxurious virgin wool fabric, the straight fitted coat features leather toggles, […]