style notes for the guys

Calypso jumper (via through a glass darkly) / Damon Albarn in a Nike hoodie/ George Clooney's shirt in 'One Fine Day'/ Charles Bukowski/ Frank Lloyd Wright's Falling Water/ Burberry shirt/ swimming man/ Woody Harrelson/ Clementines (I've lost count of how many I've eaten over the past two months..)

And this camp spectacle of a performance by The Rubettes. I love how much energy they have and how mismatched it is against the crowd's obligatory steady clapping. If I ever end up getting married, or just throwing a huge birthday party I may find a tribute act to recreate this just for the hilarity. But first need to sort out George Michael singing Careless Whisper to me on a table for my 21st. I like the idea of an awkward intimate performance for each milestone birthday..

for the guys

1. damon albarn and graham coxon in new york.

2.  red parka, a.p.c.

3. mountain infantry, 1942.

4. paul mccartney.

5. bruce willis and demi moore.

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style notes for the guys

beck, mick jagger, new balance running team, timex heritage camper watch, take ivy by teruyoshi hayashida, dad, young paul mccartney, new balance 420 trainers.

On the topic of New Balance trainers.. Josh and I spotted a very cool girl cycling past us last night. She had a nice shiny bob (think Eleonore from Ytligheter) and was wearing blue chinos with her own battered pair of New Balance and looked fantastically cool and casual as the late afternoon sun was shining down on the hill. This combined with Lisa Corneliusson's trainer collection, that Tux-n-adidas Kate Moss outfit and the running shoes from The Big Chill I well and truly have trainers on the brain.

along with this brilliant musical mash-up from DJ O-Face..

style notes for the guys

1. the big chill. 2. stone cord chinos by topman LTD equestrian. 3. josh and george buying pizzas. 4. tees by a.p.c + carhartt (out oct 7th) 5. take ivy by teruyoshi hayashida. 6. S.M.U fraternity housemother and frat boys. 7. curry at my house. 
8. a.p.c + carhartt jackets.

style notes for the guys

shinjuku alley, tokyo by tomoji, timex watch, TC40 buzzsaw marine shoes by f-troupe, ryan gosling in half nelson, ocean park 116 by richard deibenkorn, lindsay anderson's 'if',collie, toffee trousers from topman

style notes for the guys

1. robert redford in 'all the president's men' 2. uten silo wall holder by dorothee becker
3. nuclear testing in the nevada desert 4. spike jonze directing meryl streep in 'adaptation'
5. paintbrushes 6. thomas mars 7. martin sheen and sissy spacek in 'badlands' 8. a treehouse

style notes for the guys

1. collection of north american national park handkerchiefs, own photograph
2. bill murray
3. ryan mcginley by chad moore
4. alex davis at sam johnson's bookstore on venice boulevard, LA, own photograph
5. african safari, life magazine
6. gordon brown in 1999 by murdo maccloud
7. jack nicholson
8. vince vaughan in thumbsucker



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style notes for the guys

clockwise from top left: quetzal saunders via backyard bill, james dean, best picture of owen wilson and wes anderson ever, james stewart in hitchcock's rear window, couple of my guy acquaintances rich smith and ashton launcherley, johnny depp, bill travers in 'born free'.



I've been meaning to dedicate more posts to style for the guys. Partly obviously for the guys themselves, but also on a selfish level for myself and the side of me that wishes to spend my days as a dapper gent in camel jackets and desert boots or maybe even resembling Matt Damon in The Talented Mr Ripley. Let's make this a regular thing. And if you're a guy who currently reads the blog, do leave a little comment and say Hi, as I'm used to assuming it's only the girls frequenting!

the dapper twelve

12 ways 'to hair':

james dean, morrissey, michael pitt (as kurt cobain), nick cave, daniel day lewis, jeremy irons, wes anderson, cary grant,

paul thomson (franz ferdinand), jimi hendrix, peter saarsgard, sean penn (as harvey milk)