Style Shots—Classic Menswear Fall Edition
Photography by: Swabreen Bakr
I caught up with David P. Lochner over at one of the best vintage shops that caters exclusively to men, Briar Vintage in Old City, Philadelphia. Love the fur detailing on his coat and the textured socks. As always with menswear it’s fun to see what details are emphasized with the color schemes, in this case the yellow pocket square pulling out the yellow in the plaid pants was a great touch.
The Sartorialist: Closer Q&A
Photography & Words by Swabreen Bakr
Scott Schuman aka The Sartorialist (along with his girlfriend Garance Doré ) stopped by in Philadelphia for a private Q&A with Ouigi Theodore of The Brooklyn Circus as part of his book tour. He was in town for a public book signing for Closer at The Barnes Foundation, and a few members of the media were invited to attend this candid Q&A session.
Closer explores themes that viewers of Schuman’s website have come to love, style and fashion, however it also explores themes that Schuman says he feels are, “getting closer to what I wanted to do originally in terms of mixing fashion, street and kind of cultural shots.”
Below is a transcript from the very enlightening Q&A, Schuman talks about his process as a photographer, his inspirations and how to maintain a profitable blog.
Style Shots—Fall Fashion Trends at The Sartorialist ‘Closer’ Book Signing
Photography by: Swabreen Bakr
Originally published on: Philly.com/Style
On Saturday, Scott Schuman aka The Sartorialist and Garance Dore visited Philly for a book signing at The Barnes Foundation. Philadelphians put their best threads forth and wore some awesome ensembles inspired by Fall 2012’s biggest trends, leather, black and gold, camo, over-sized jackets, and pattern mixing among others. It was really inspiring to see all these fashion-conscious young people in one room.
Style Shots—GQ x GAP Ian Velardi
Photography by Chaucee Stillman
Words by Swabreen Bakr
I’m kind of … ok pretty obsessed with this GQ for GAP collaboration featuring the best new menswear designers in America 2012. The Fall 2012 trends for womenswear include a lot odes to masculinity so with that inspiration in mind-and my current love for black and white minimalism-I put this look together featuring Ian Velardi’s Triangle Print shirt ($60), with a cool leather jacket, Uniqlo jeans, some ultra feminine high heels from ASOS, plus a pair of Warby Parker glasses for this cool and confident look.
The shirt that I’m wearing is a men’s xtra-small, it fits quite nicely in the shoulders and neck but the arms are a bit long. It’s super comfortable and is pretty sexy with a nice pencil skirt too.
This GQ for GAP collection has a lot of super cool items, I highly recommend both men and women check out. They’re a couple of items in there that are unisex enough that a girl with the right attitude can rock. The ampersand sweat shirt and pom pom beanie from Saturdays along with my other purchase BLK DENIM’s Liberté tee are two good options.
Dear, New York
Photography & Words by: Swabreen Bakr
Every time I visit NYC I come back feeling really inspired, it really is a city unlike any other. The energy, the scenery… every corner looks like it could be a movie set. I spent a day roaming around the Meatpacking District, SoHo and TriBeCa last week and I’m excited to go back and check out some of the other neighborhoods that I haven’t been to yet.
In this set some scenes from the Meatpacking District, in addition to the High Line park there is an awesome high-end shopping scene here, Christian Louboutin recently opened his first men’s shoe store here, it comes equipped with a tattoo parlor!
There are some really great food to have in this area, the High Line features some affordable dining options serving up hot dogs, tacos, burgers, popsicles and coffee. The Chelsea Market has a fantastic series of restaurants and coffee shops, it reminds me of Philadelphia’s Reading Terminal Market. The Standard hotel has a beer garden and across from that is an awesome food and fashion pop-up market called UrbanSpace.
Roaming around here was super fun, and a nice way to spend a couple of hours. Shopping, walking and eating, it doesn’t get any better!
Style Shots—Beau & Co. Chambray Pt IV
Photography by: Swabreen Bakr
Alas the final look in our chambray series is here; we’ve been tracking how to wear this versatile shirt from Summer to Fall with Michael Beaumont, one of our featured Philadelphia Creatives, and the tailor behind some of these exceptional menswear garments. Make sure to check out his bespoke menswear shop Beau & Co.
October is here, the leaves are starting to change and we’ve all begun to layer up a bit more; Michael breaks down this look as follows,
The final look of this mini-series is for a particularly cold, but dry Fall day. We used the same chambray shirt, chino and merino wool knit combination, but added one of our wool and cashmere blazers. This jacket is perfect for the Fall season, it’s a heavier weigh of cloth and has a full canvas for extra shape, and adds a little extra warmth through the body. We finished off the look with a cream scarf and a pair of thicker soled, dark brown leather shoes, which will do a better job of keeping the feet warm than the leather soled shoes from the early Fall outfit.
Again, a nice versatile outfit that would be great for a night out or for a day in the office, but do make sure you bring an umbrella when leaving the house with a blazer of this nature on, rain certainly isn’t a good friend of this cloth.
Polka dots are kind of a big deal this season, Kate Spade has a fun social media campaign going on around it called #ArtOfTheDot, as dots feature heavily in their current collection. This fall jeans are making a statement with patterns, textures and cool tuxedo inspired detailing.
Shop it!
Free People Dotted Velvet Skinny
Hudson Tuxedo Skinny
Style Shots—Modern Luxury
Photography & Words by: Swabreen Bakr
Chaisley was first featured on URBSVOX.com as one of our Philadelphia Creatives; in addition to being an inspiring entrepreneurial young woman she also has a killer sense of style. She favors contemporary brands with clean lines and a comfortable feel like Alexander Wang and 3.1 Phillip Lim.
Although her outfit looks understated, she’s rocking some seriously cool digs that altogether encompass Modern Luxury.
Sunglasses: Claire Goldsmith
T-Shirt: Alexander Wang
Jacket: Theory
Jeans: Current/Elliot
Boots: Roberto Del Carlo
Bag: Ruby Zaar
Watch: Men’s Yacht-Master Rolex
Wrap Bracelet: Club Monaco
Intermix opened a store in Philadelphia this past week, I walked in and fell in love with these two amazing pair of jeans. These jeans combine some of Fall’s biggest trends, high contrast black & white, patterns and on the jeans end tuxedo detailing. Love!
Shop it! Rag & Bone for Intermix
Style Shots—Menswear Pattern Mixing
Photography & Words by: Swabreen Bakr
A well dressed man is a thing to behold, here we have Wale, one of Esquire’s ‘Best Dressed Real Men’; a lawyer by day in our own fair city of Philadelphia and owner of an amazing menswear fashion blog where you can see him wearing goods from his upcoming clothing line.
One of my favorite things about menswear is that the closer you look the more interesting details you find. Here we find a lot of subtle things, like the color of one of his bracelets matching the buttons on his jacket, the yellow in his pocket square compliments the yellow thread on the jacket itself. The color scheme and texture of his shoes and suitcase also work very well together. This type of subtle detailing and accessorizing is definitely something to consider when putting together an outfit. Between the pocket square, jacket and shirt you have an fantastic mix of patterns. Pattern mixing is big for Fall in women’s wear, here’s a good example of how a man does it.
