Japanese Magazine Specialties: Tokushu, Bessatsu and Mook Books
Japan has, without a doubt, the widest and the best menswear magazine offerings on the planet. Just head to your average convenient store, or conbini, and you will see at least 20 different titles just...
View ArticleKapital’s Fall / Winter ’15 Lookbook – Route E10 Lappland
If there’s one thing Kapital is known for beyond their clothing it’s their incredibly produced lookbooks. From “Peace Pilgirms”, to “Deniming for Sunken Treasure”, to “Sailor Ninjas”, the Kapital crew...
View ArticleFreenote Cloth – One Year Later
One defining characteristic of our corner of the industry—call it “heritage,” call it “craft menswear,” call it what you will—is a reverence for what has come before. To some extent, there is even a...
View Article3sixteen Iterations Volume 1 – Short Sleeve Shirts
Generally speaking, the fashion industry operates biannually – fall/winter and spring/summer. While this dictates product roll-out for a majority of retailers, many of the smaller brands produce their...
View ArticleMourning Maple Motorcycle Jeans
If you’re a Maple Motorcycle Jeans fan and you haven’t seen this e-mail, we’re sorry to have to break the news to you. We covered the hog-riding, denim-donning brand several years back and are now...
View ArticleThe Hill-Side one of GQ’s Best New Menswear Designers
These may not be the VMA’s, but GQ‘s short list of 2015’s Best New Menswear Designers in America puts the spotlight on small, but promising, menswear designers. Included in that list are David Hart,...
View ArticleFifthrequisite Jeans – Thai Raw Denim
“Eat, Drink, Sleep, Sex”, those are the four main needs of a human being according to Thai raw denim brand Fifthrequisite. There is, however, another requirement; a fifth requisite, if you will. And...
View ArticleRogue Territory FW15 Flannel Shirting
It might not technically be fall yet, but that doesn’t mean you can’t prepare for it. You can start with the recently released set of shirts from Rogue Territory. There’s many a flannel for this...
View ArticleBeams Plus Autumn Winter 2015 Lookbook
There’s no doubt in my mind that Beams has some of the best stylists out there. The Beams Plus AW 2015 line reinforces this fact. As our Managing Editor put it, it’s “If James Dean wore baggy pleats…”...
View ArticleRoy Cotton Duck Selvedge Foreman Pants
Self Edge is once again stocked with some fresh new Roy goodness. This time it’s his Cotton Duck Foreman Pants. They’re made of a Cone Mills sanforized 10.5 oz selvedge duck cotton that’s been fiber...
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