Spit shining becomes remarkably easy if your shoes elicit an almost Pavlovian salivation response.

Simply put; GG’s most elegant bespoke work to date.

I’ve always been a fan of GG’s more angular Cleverely-inspired TG73 last but these just look so balanced I might actually start favouring their DG70 (though this will be a custom last).

Also - canted heels.

(Source: gazianogirling)

thisideaofsurrender:

Topman Design A/W 2013

Watching the Topman fashion shows for the season ahead is essentially just being subjected to a terrifying and demoralising  premonition of the abject hideousness that will be dominating the British streets in the all-too-near future…

(Source: justdropithere, via barelyescaped)

homme—models:

Gabriel Perez by Iberico Alex

Does anybody else think that bullfighting is a horrific abuse of animal rights?

Forcing defenseless, innocent, slobbering bovines to fight brutally and sadistically for their lives.

Whilst dressed like that.

(Source: malemodelscene)

Do other countries suffer from the undeniable link between red trousers and guffawing buffoonery or is this primarily a British infestation?

http://lookatmyfuckingredtrousers.blogspot.co.uk/2012/12/outplayed.html

The problem with ongoing gender reassignment therapy is that at some point you reach an equilibrium where no casual onlooker can tell on which side of the fence you’re eventually going to end up…

(Source: menstyle1)

Anonymous asked: Ideal outfit for a girl to be dressed in? I'm quite curious as to how you are seduced....

A good part of me simply wants to howl “Red lipstick, knee high socks and nothing else!” but at the very least it’s horribly impractical and we all know I’m a little finer than that.

I guess I can only thank you for this sexual-objectification minefield of a question - so let’s wander and I’ll try not to blow my legs off.

Clothes do not, of course, maketh the woman but they can giveth the man a pretty good idea; there’s no avoiding the overwhelming physicality of first impressions but the most attractive women I know dress in ways that somehow mirror their personalities so there’s more to what makes you look great than the sheer superficiality of your clothing. If your clothes are just body coverings I’d say you’re not doing yourself any favours - dress purposefully.

But I digress, I have no idea what clothes makes women look especially alluring - it’s much more subjective than good-old-fashioned ultra-logical menswear with its obsessive-compulsive breaks and darts and hems and inches - you’ve got oodles more to play with (and I don’t envy you). Dress personally, uniquely, ridiculously, conservatively, provocatively, insanely, expressively, whatever, just do it with personal style… or some other vague hashtag cliche, but you get the idea

Yohji Yamamoto can be right on point so I’ll let him tackle the subtleties; even if he’s a little wordy and misty-eyed at times but he is unanimously and incontestably awesome so:

“For me, a woman who is absorbed in her work, who does not care about gaining one’s favour, strong yet subtle at the same time, is essentially more seductive. The more she hides and abandons her femininity, the more it emerges from the very heart of her existence.” 

To distill that down into non “this quote’s gonna be so fucking internet famous” language,basically, like Yohji, I find ‘girly-girls’ with their preening and trivial unseriousness to wholly lack seductiveness. Be interested and interesting really; have your shit together and have useful ideas on your mind. Having a little gravitas doesn’t have to mean be boring - but good God if it’s done right… *be right back*

Seriously though: red/dark lipstick; it’s the cheatsheet to my heart…

Beyonce appeared in GQ recently in both a photoshoot and a brief interview.

She talked somewhat about gender equality which is, of course, great.

But the sad fact that you can finish her interview, look to the adjacent page and clammily knock one out to her being “GQ’s Sexiest Woman of the Millennium” might suggest that perhaps that we’ve got a long way to go in making this message not seem farcical and unserious to the majority of men - even when it comes from one of the world’s most successful women.

Edit: The crippling loss of faith in humanity when this gets reblogged but the text is removed. Dammit people have you no grasp of irony?

Anonymous asked: Mate that wooster post is fucking hilarious.

I shall briefly discard my capsid of sneering restraint and simply say:

Ohmigod I totally know, like, right?!?

Cranium Woost.

Particular thanks to my talented friend Aiden for this rather fantastic photoshop

I feel no caption is necessary here.

Source (not the ostrich source I might add): drk-matter

Turns out Bonobos’ “Girlfriend Jeans for Men” was just a prank with an admittedly rather impressive sense of irony behind it.

I was somewhat disappointed they weren’t real though, not because I want a pair but because all the men who do would inevitably end up becoming sterile.

Well it’s finally happened; the tops are off, the flip flops are on and the annual sartorial genocide that is British summertime has begun.

Seeing this when nursing a ferocious hangover is just… ugh… seriously… just… screw this guy. And what in fuck’s name is he so perplexed about?

On the scale of “Riotously Terrible Tie Uses” the next level down from this would just be hanging yourself with it in a public toilet.

(Source: allaboutmenswear, via im-just-a-modern-man)

mensfashionworld:

Versace S/S 2013

An urgent meeting of the Gods on the summit of Mount Olympus comes to the conclusion that:

They should really leave Hermes alone, it’s probably just some phase he’s going through.