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09/26/08 ·

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Hot Guinness, Cold Cuts & Sketchy Men

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West, Unchained: After escaping a possible felony charge for a paparazzi scuffle at LAX, Kanye West enjoys the simple things, like fire starter Daphne Guinness. [Kanye West’s Blog]

Fat Cat Cuts: It’s not just billions in bonus money disappearing on Wall Street. Kiss your gender reassignment, door pooch and G4 goodbye. [Vanity Fair]

Worst Week Ever: Glenn O’Brien lays into New York Fashion’s biannual circus at Bryant Park [Style Guy]

Blog Alert: If The Sartorialist were a doodler… [What I Saw Today]

05/01/09 ·

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The Lens, the Font, and the Ball

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Models and Bottles: The Met takes a look at the photographer model relation…and comes away with a significantly more chaste take than we were expecting. [The Cut]

Sign of the Times: A peek into the arduous design clash behind the interstate’s new typeface. [NYTimes]

A Verdant Glenn: Our favorite guy of style checks in with a new blues compilation. [Men.Style]

Free Throws, Free Trade: The first trick to inspiring economic confidence is sinking every single free throw. [Gawker]

09/22/09 ·

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Ellen Page and Drew Barrymore are Good Friends

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This Might Count as “Fueling Speculation”: There will come a day when Sapphic titillation no longer generates automatic press coverage. But it is not this day. [Marie Claire]

Paul Lives: 45 years later, Google Trends confirms it: the Beatles are bigger than Jesus. [TG Daily]

It’s Ok With Us: Elliott Gould drops a little knowledge from a hipper plane. [Esquire]

Fare Thee Well: Glenn O’Brien eulogizes a departed man of style. [Style Guy]

10/15/09 ·

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Linda Evangelista is Surrounded by Chickens

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Poultry Farming: We cannot begin to tell you what is going on here. [Fashion Copious]

Rags and Patches: Glenn O’Brien is not pleased with Bono’s choice of jacket. [GQ]

Suit Up: WWD counts down the suit’s best moments on screen. We won’t dispute Wall Street, but Miami Vice might be more controversial than they think. [WWD]

In Retrospect, This Was Inevitable: Terry Richardson has his own, semi-NSFW action figure. [Colette]

11/06/09 ·

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Stephanie Seymour is a Woman Wronged

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All’s Fair: We’ve always said, appearing nude in a national publication is the best revenge. [Vanity Fair]

Going Mad: The impeccable Glenn O’Brien ponders the latest Mad Men developments. [GQ Eye]

The Internet Wins Again: MSNBC’s twitter gets hacked, says ungentlemanly things about Don Imus’ wife. (Warning: You are about to peer into the dark heart of the internet.) [TechCrunch]

The Getaway: Four of the coolest bank robberies ever, almost all of which have found their way to into films, one way or another. [Neatorama]

11/13/09 ·

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Doutzen Kroes, From the Chin Up

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Kroesin’: Fashion Gone Rogue has good choice in muses. [Fashion Gone Rogue]

A Cordial Occasion: In the shadowy den of the Corduroy Appreciation Club. [The Moment]

Is There Anything it Can’t Do?: No Mas graces us with an animated retread of Dock Ellis’s acid-assisted no-hitter. [Gawker]

Fantastic: Glenn O’Brien really liked Fantastic Mr. Fox, which is usually a good sign. [GQ Eye]

01/04/10 ·

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Stay Golden, Julie Rode

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You Know, Metaphorically: That jacket probably crinkles a lot. [Fashion Gone Rogue]

The Style Guy of Style Guys: Glenn O’Brien is scouring eBay for a Citroen. Sometimes the only appropriate response is awe. [A Continuous Lean]

Bags, Hats and Belts: The latest crop of APC accessories just landed, and no matter what you think, they refuse to make their belts any thicker or their ties any wider. Shine on… [Selectism]

Little Gold Men: Ranking “For Your Consideration” ads on a scale from Spielberg to Seagal. [Vulture]