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Grooming4 min read
Aesop and the Cult of the Brown Bottle
A hairdresser in Armadale mixed essential oils into hair color in 1987. The shops that followed never looked the same twice.
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Culture4 min read
Aimé Leon Dore and Teddy Santis, From Queens to Mulberry Street
A curtained shop on Mott Street, a Greek café on Mulberry and a forgotten 1989 basketball shoe. How a Queens kid built New York's most watched quiet label.
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Style4 min read
The Oxford Button-Down: From Polo Collar to Ivy Canon
How a collar borrowed from English polo players became the most democratic shirt in menswear, and why the details still matter.
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Tech4 min read
Ricoh GR: The Pocket Camera Street Shooters Won't Give Up
Ricoh's 28mm compact began as a magnesium film camera in 1996. Thirty years later, street photographers still leave the house with one in a jacket pocket.
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Culture4 min read
Virgil Abloh, Off-White and the Age of Quotation Marks
An architecture graduate from Rockford put quotation marks on Nike, IKEA and Louis Vuitton. Five years on, the punctuation is still doing the talking.
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Design4 min read
The Wassily Chair Was Never Kandinsky's
A bicycle, a Bauhaus workshop and an Italian who needed a better name than B3. How Breuer's steel tube club chair got a painter's first name.
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Tech4 min read
Game Boy: How Gunpei Yokoi Won With Old Tech
Nintendo's 1989 handheld had a four-shade screen and no backlight. It buried every color rival anyway, thanks to a designer who trusted old parts.
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WatchesFeature4 min read
Rolex Submariner History: From Tool Watch to Icon
How a 1953 dive instrument rated to 100 meters became the most imitated wristwatch on earth, one reference at a time.
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Design4 min read
The Egg Chair Was Built for a Hotel Lobby
Arne Jacobsen designed a Copenhagen tower down to the ashtrays. The chair he put in its lobby outlived almost everything else in the building.
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CultureFeature4 min read
How Hip-Hop Rewrote Menswear, From Run-DMC to Nigo
Shell toes, Harlem couture, boosted Polo and a Tokyo ape. How four moments in hip-hop took over menswear and never gave it back.
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