Archive for: September 9, 2007

When an enterprising young man named James Christie opened his sales rooms in London in December 1766, his first auction consisted of the estate of a “deceased nobleman” containing “a large Quantity of Madeira and high Flavour’d Claret.” The records …

Is your skin ready for summer?
In the summer, men’s skin becomes oilier because its moisture content rises with the humidity. Men’s skin is 20 percent oilier than women’s and has significantly larger pores. This means men need to take more …

With the advent of the tennis shirt, however, the upturned collar took on a whole new purpose. In 1929 René Lacoste, the French 7-time Grand Slam champion, decided that the stiff dress shirts and ties usually worn by tennis players …

Calvin Klein
If you’re going to adopt American icons as your theme, you could do much worse than to start with Bruce Weber, America’s greatest modern iconographer. And Weber makes even more sense for Calvin Klein designer Italo Zucchelli, because …