Looking for a summer sale featuring insane bargains, tinged with an uncomfortable sense of capitalising on someone else’s misfortune? You’ve come to the right place. Gentry, the Brooklyn based stronghold of left-field menswear, is very sadly shutting up shop. The store had been offering peculiarly… Read More
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Kapital does remarkably wearable
Coming from the frequently aesthetically irresponsible design team at Kapital, this jacket seems remarkably wearable. No on the wonk hems, frayed seams or labyrinthine patchwork. This is the Kapital equivalent of a simple Comme des Garçons navy blazer – you get to wear the coveted… Read More
Books, are they still a thing?
The library in Peckham appears to have been built from giant green pixels. People say it’s an inverted ‘L’ shape. It looks to me like a relic of Atari era gaming, a colossal gobbling mouth, slowly sinking into the concrete. The building won the Stirling… Read More
A semi-retired Hong Kong Phooey
Based in NYC, Abdul Abasi and Greg Rosborough are the guys behind Abasi Rosborough. Ex of Engineered Garments and Ralph Lauren respectively, they launched their brand in 2013. Cut forward three years to me walking out of Gentry in Brooklyn, having just dropped-heavy on a… Read More
A look inside: Gentry, Brooklyn, NYC
If you’re ever looking to spot the absolutely stereotypical hipster in the wild (you know, the type glossies commission cartoony illustrations of when they’re rolling out another style tribes feature) head to Williamsburg NYC. I’ve never seen so many beards, tattoos, baseball caps, skinny, rolled… Read More
Another stylistic affectation
Back in the day, when I was slender of age and wallet, I remember wearing short-sleeved shirts over long-sleeved T-shirts. It wasn’t a stylistic affectation. It was born of owning too few garms and living beneath a chilly Midland’s sky. I grew out of it.… Read More