What David Bowie Understood About Fashion as Identity
David Bowie did not use fashion to express a fixed identity.
Oliver Ramsey · 2024-09-05
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What Gianni Agnelli Understood About Italian Sprezzatura
Gianni Agnelli, the longtime head of Fiat and the unofficial king of Italian industry, is remembered as much for his personal style as for his business empire.
Thomas Nakamura · 2024-09-05
What Fred Astaire Understood About Movement and Cloth
Fred Astaire dressed in a way that most style icons do not: he dressed for movement.
James Alderton · 2024-09-04
What Miles Davis Understood About Sartorial Risk
Miles Davis changed the direction of music at least five times across a career that spanned five decades.
William Ashford · 2024-09-04
What Cary Grant Understood About Modern Elegance
Cary Grant was born Archibald Leach in Bristol, England, in 1904, the son of a garment presser.
Catherine Avery · 2024-09-03
What Sean Connery Understood About Bond Style
Sean Connery's James Bond defined cinematic masculinity for a generation, but his contribution to menswear is more specific and more enduring than the broad archetype suggests.
Oliver Ramsey · 2024-09-03
What Steve McQueen Understood About Effortless Cool
Steve McQueen understood something that stylists, fashion houses, and menswear brands have spent decades trying to bottle: cool is not a look.
Marcus Wei · 2024-09-02
What Paul Newman Understood About Understated Confidence
Paul Newman was one of the most handsome men in the history of cinema, and he spent much of his career trying to make people forget it.
Marcus Wei · 2024-09-02
What On the Road Teaches About Living Well
Jack Kerouac's 1957 novel, typed in a three-week burst on a single continuous scroll of paper, chronicles the cross-country journeys of Sal Paradise and Dean Moriarty during the late 1940s.
Daniel Hurst · 2024-09-01
What Goodbye to All That Teaches About Living Well
Robert Graves' 1929 autobiography is best known for its harrowing account of trench warfare on the Western Front, but the book is far more than a war memoir.
Sebastian Cole · 2024-09-01
What The Remains of the Day Teaches About Living Well
Kazuo Ishiguro's 1989 novel follows Stevens, an English butler who has devoted his entire life to serving Lord Darlington at a great country house.
William Ashford · 2024-08-31
What Norwegian Wood Teaches About Living Well
Haruki Murakami's 1987 novel, his most realistic and autobiographical work, follows Toru Watanabe through his university years in late-1960s Tokyo.
Oliver Ramsey · 2024-08-31
What The Sun Also Rises Teaches About Living Well
Ernest Hemingway's 1926 debut novel follows a group of American and British expatriates from the cafes of Paris to the bullfighting festivals of Pamplona.
Thomas Nakamura · 2024-08-30
What A Moveable Feast Teaches About Living Well
Hemingway's posthumous memoir, published in 1964, three years after his death, recounts his years as a young writer in 1920s Paris.
Oliver Ramsey · 2024-08-30
What Brideshead Revisited Teaches About Living Well
Evelyn Waugh's 1945 novel, subtitled The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder, is a lament for a vanishing world.
Catherine Avery · 2024-08-29
What The Catcher in the Rye Teaches About Living Well
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Thomas Nakamura · 2024-08-29
What The Great Gatsby Teaches About Living Well
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Thomas Nakamura · 2024-08-28
What Tender Is the Night Teaches About Living Well
Fitzgerald's 1934 novel is overshadowed by Gatsby, but many critics and writers consider it the more mature and devastating work.
Marcus Wei · 2024-08-28
Why The Thomas Crown Affair Deserves a Second Look
Norman Jewison's 1968 original and John McTiernan's 1999 remake are both worth revisiting, but it is the original that has aged into something remarkable: a style document disguised as a heist film, a portrait of 1960s Boston wealth at its most seductive and its most hollow.
Thomas Nakamura · 2024-08-27
Why A Single Man Deserves a Second Look
Tom Ford's 2009 directorial debut, adapted from Christopher Isherwood's 1964 novel, is a film about grief so precisely observed that its beauty becomes almost unbearable.
Daniel Hurst · 2024-08-27