The first Engineered Garments drop of SS 17 hasn’t even hit The Bureau, and already we’ve got the brand’s Fall 17 lookbook to idolise. Unsurprisingly, we see an audacious approach to laying, workwear staples, charcoal patch-working, argyle patterning and hats capacious enough to fit the… Read More
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All kinds of precarious, counter-culture questions
You’ve probably never heard of FilMelange. But if you’re bothered, take a look at their brand site. It’s dull. A bit like Debenhams – terribly polite, ordered and innocuous. Now see how the brand is represented on Acoustics Online. More interesting right? All of a… Read More
Engineered Garments SS17 lookbook
Even as our current summer tosses and turns between sodden and warminess, the gentleman menswearman must look to the future. Next summer to be precise. This is the Engineered Garments SS17 lookbook, in its entirety, over one page (no click harvesting galleries here.) Fans familiar… Read More
Best new menswear shop in London
So there’s a new store in town. And not even just London town. But Peckham, where I live, just down the road. And it’s ridiculous. Called Alpha Shadows, they stock a berserko selection of unheard of Japanese brands that you may pretend to have heard… Read More
Am I just happy that this exists?
To some eyes this is the perfect Ewok themed garment to wear to a Thursday evening screening of The Force Awakens. To others, it’s a lunatic conjoining of fake fur and disco pockets. As much as I love the brand Kapital, I’m not sure what… Read More
What the fuck have you got on now?
For many, menswear rarely deviates from four staples: trousers, shirt, sweater and jacket. In the geometry of style, this sartorial quadrilateral forms the foundation of what ‘most western guys wear’™. And for a great many dudes this has, and will probably always be, the case.… Read More