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Comme des Garçons. Since the men's line launched in 1984, Comme des Garçons has challenged notions of color, form, and convention, all while expanding its collective to include numerous Comme des Garçons lines and designers.

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As Cathy Horyn wrote, "No living designer, with the exception of Azzedine Alaïa, is held in higher esteem by her peers, and none has enriched our spirit in so many original and confounding ways. " There is not a single designer today who can claim they are not influenced by Rei Kawakubo and Comme des Garçons. The brand's various lines have commanded the tastes of steezy guys no matter what their personal sense of style is. Comme des Garçons SHIRT has dominated contemporary menswear, while Play and Homme Deux have become necessities for anyone into streetwear and formal menswear, respectively. With Junya Watanabe and a fistful of upcoming collaborations in the stable, Comme des Garçons is set to rule the foreseeable future. Vlisco, the African Fashion Titan from Holland.

LONDON, United Kingdom — Near sellers of dried salt fish, start-up restaurants staffed by earthy yuppies and an eatery called Fish, Wings and Tings, at the heart of Granville Arcade in Brixton, a London neighbourhood known for its African and Caribbean populations, is a shop called African Queen Fabrics.

Vlisco, the African Fashion Titan from Holland

Neat stacks of brightly coloured African “wax” print fabrics fill the shelves of the airy space, where the majority of the customers are part of the West and Central African diaspora who buy material for tailors to make up into elaborate outfits for church on Sunday, gifts for relatives, or, simply to hoard, as British designer Ozwald Boateng’s Ghanaian mother and her friends did. “Every Ghanaian woman of my mother’s generation collected hundreds of these fabrics,” said Boateng.

“My mother literally had a room packed with these cloths. When I was 16, I decided I wanted to experiment and made an outfit from them. She came back, saw that I had cut into the cloth, and she lost her mind.”

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Men Formal. Brunello Cucinelli's Guide to Thinking, Acting, and Dressing Like an Italian Gentleman: Style. On the day the unexpected package arrives, I'm wearing—and bear with me, because this matters—my favorite torn Levi's, circa 1998, a gray, well-worn tee, an old flannel shirt, and a blue sweater with a hole in the right elbow. On my feet is a pair of furry L.L.Bean slippers that gave up the ghost during the late Bush years. Similar ensembles have caused me, in various moments, to be mistaken for homeless, misconstrued as a past-due college student, and celebrated for assorted fashion faux pas including, once, the wearing of not one but two sweater-vests.

Sloppy casual has always been my default look.

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However, many men still shy away from utilising ‘real’ hats on a regular basis – no, your trusty beanie doesn’t count – meaning that is can be just the accessory you need in order to make you stand out from the crowd. With this in mind, we will be going into great detail on the history, construction and styling of individual hat types – with the hope that by the end, almost every reader will have found his perfect topper. The Driving Cap The driving cap; you might know it as a flat cap, golf cap or newsboy cap; perhaps even a cabbie hat. This is perhaps because the style carries a certain stigma or two with it.

History The flat cap is a style steeped in heritage. Should I Wear It? A hat should suit your face shape. More like Jack Black? On The Catwalks. Amsterdam. #22808391.

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