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How to break in raw selvedge jeans. Which SPF to wear under a cap all summer. Where to shop in Seongsu-dong, Le Marais or the back streets of Harajuku, and what a first Savile Row fitting actually involves. Our guides are the practical side of the magazine, each one tied back to the history that explains why the thing is worth doing properly.
Places change and shops move, so every city guide carries the date it was last checked. Start with whatever you are about to buy, wear or visit.
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Grooming4 min read
Retinol for Men, Minus the Peeling Face
The vitamin A ingredient dermatologists rate so highly has a reputation for flaking skin. Most of that comes down to starting too fast.
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Travel5 min read
Daikanyama and Nakameguro: Tokyo's Slow Shopping Hill
A select shop that moved uphill in 1979, a bookstore wrapped in its own logo and a river where the cherry branches meet over the water.
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Travel4 min read
SoHo, New York: A Streetwear Guide From Lafayette to the Bowery
Cast iron, cheap lofts and a skate shop that opened in 1994. How the blocks south of Houston became the place menswear lines up.
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Grooming5 min read
The Safety Razor and a Modern Guide to Wet Shaving
King Gillette's 1904 patent sold 51 razors in its first year. Now the double-edge is back, and shaving with one well takes a lighter hand.
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Travel4 min read
A Streetwear Pilgrim's Guide to Tokyo's Ura-Harajuku
The backstreets behind Omotesando gave the world BAPE, Undercover and the modern drop. A walk through where it happened and how to see it now.
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Grooming4 min read
Sunscreen for Men, Decoded Down to the Fine Print
SPF numbers, water resistance and the shot glass rule. The least glamorous product in your bag is the one doing the most work.
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Travel5 min read
Roma and Condesa: Mexico City's Art Deco Comeback
A neighborhood laid out by a circus owner, a racetrack you can still jog around and the earthquake that emptied both before they came back.
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Travel4 min read
Le Marais, Paris: A Style Guide to the Old Marsh
Royal squares, salt-tax mansions and a 2013 concept store on a side street. The Marais rewards anyone who walks it slowly.
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Style4 min read
Raw Denim, Selvedge and the Loom That Started It All
Raw is about finishing. Selvedge is about the loom. A Reno tailor, a closed North Carolina mill and Okayama's makers explain why it matters.
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Travel4 min read
Copenhagen Design Guide: Hospitals, Hotels and Room 606
A design museum in an eighteenth-century hospital, a hotel built down to the cutlery and a square that has sold furniture since 1925.
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Travel4 min read
Berlin Mitte: Squats, Galleries and the Long Walk West
A margarine factory turned art institute, a department store with four lives and the East Berlin streets that taught the city how to shop again.
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Travel4 min read
Savile Row: A Visitor's Guide to Bespoke Tailoring in London
Two and a half centuries of cutting, fitting and quiet rivalry on one Mayfair street, and how to walk in for a first fitting without feeling out of place.
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Travel4 min read
Seongsu-dong, Seoul: From Shoe Factories to Pop-Up Capital
Seoul's old shoemaking district now hosts Dior, ADER and more pop-ups than anyone can count. The workshops are still there if you look.
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Grooming4 min read
The Beard Care Guide for Men Who Mean It
A good beard is mostly a skin project. Wash it, feed it, shape it, and stop blaming the itch on bad genetics.
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Travel4 min read
Milan Design Week: How Salone and Fuorisalone Actually Work
One trade fair in Rho, a few thousand events across the city and six days to see them. A field guide to April in Milan.
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Travel4 min read
Fairfax Avenue, Los Angeles: The Streetwear Block After the Boom
A Jewish deli street turned streetwear capital turned cautionary tale. Fairfax is quieter now, and more interesting for it.
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Travel4 min read
Kyoto Craft Guide: Tea Caddies, Knives and Canvas Bags
A knife shop that started as a swordsmith in 1560, a tea caddy taking more than 130 steps. Kyoto still makes things the slow way.
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Travel4 min read
London's Soho and Dover Street Market: A Streetwear Guide
From John Stephen's His Clothes in 1957 to Rei Kawakubo's beautiful chaos on Haymarket. A walk through London's best square mile for clothes.
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