Pointer Shoes | Treat Your Feet
I found my first pair of Pointer footwear last Spring at American Rag in L.A. and have been nuts over them ever since. They’ve been on my feet so often that I’ll be ready for a replacement pair soon enough. (I’ve probably subconsciously expedited their demise so I wouldn’t feel guilty getting another pair).
Vintage Levi’s Shirts
What actually determines something is “vintage” is often debatable, but there is no denying the authenticity of these shirts. The genuine articles, these are. (What Goes Around, Comes Around would give their left leg for a 5 minute shopping spree in here). Photographed at the Levi Strauss archives in San Francisco- same day in fact [...]
Grahame Fowler Menswear New York | The Find
Grahame Fowler’s menswear shop is the kind of find that makes you stop and say “how come I didn’t know about this before”, when you happen upon it. Only open since last summer, I don’t feel too awful for just now learning about it (to be honest, my friend Michael of Wonderland gave me the [...]
Typography Graphics | Dockers Word Play
Current Dockers Khaki ads Seeing the new Dockers ads using typography in shapes reminded me of some graphics I worked on last year with an artist out of Wisconsin named Aaron Gilmore. Where the Dockers ads merely fill a space, Aaron’s approach is to alter the actual letters, in shape and weight, to create highs [...]
Odin New York Menswear Shops
Odin in the West Village It’s always worth noting when you come across a shop that is run by a staff as nice as the clothes they sell. A lot of times it seems that the attitude grows exponentially with a shop’s price tags. Not the case at the Odin shops in NYC. Both the [...]
Muck Boots
The Chore With the weather being as it has been over the last couple months, you need to have dependable footwear. Just yesterday, I spent 6 hours kicking a shovel into the mud and brush slopping through the continued spill-off of the recent rainstorms. My 7 year old Muck Boots were with me the whole [...]
c.1930′s-40′s Depression Era Feedsacks
The later half of the 1800′s saw the introduction of farm and food products being shipped in cotton sacks. Usually made from 100% cotton plain weaves, varying in thickness, depending on the contents weight. The ones I’ve collected here are all from farm products, in a standardized 100 lb. capacity size. I found these at [...]
Paul Smith for Evian
The True Brit, and The Real Deal. Inspiring words from Sir Paul Smith- all nicely wrapped inside a beautifully produced video promoting his partnership with Evian water.
Barneys New York, Coop or Co-op?
Barney’s New York Co-op: Not quite a cooperative, but definitely full of fresh merchandise. Recently, while uptown near the Barney’s New York Madison Ave. store, a woman asked me for directions to the Barney’s Coop (not co-op, but “coop”). An honest mistake if she had only read it and not heard it pronounced. The word [...]
The Agile Rabbit
Patterns and Packaging I don’t know where I’d be without my collection of Agile Rabbit/Pepin Press reference books (BTW, this is not an advertisement). I’m in the habit of checking every bookstore for new editions wherever I go. I pick them up no matter what the subject of the volume- I’m sure that I’ll use [...]
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