There was a moment in the 1980s when Lacoste polo shirts transcended from just an item of clothing that people wore on tennis courts and became a global icon. Almost overnight, there crocodile-adorned shirts wherever you looked. In America, the Lacoste polo shirt became the standard for the preppy look, the New England WASP,…
The above picture from the 1923 English FA Cup Final (between West Ham United and Bolton Wanderers) shows all but one man wearing a hat. And the hatless man had probably just removed his to scratch his head as the photo was being taken. So why did the vast majority of men stop wearing hats…
“I CAN’T STAND FASHION, IT’S SO STUPID.” These aren’t the words of your average thirty- something male. It’s menswear designer Véronique Nichanian who just said it. But she’s not your average designer — for a start, she understands the average man. In the Hermés office in Paris, at the top end of a warren of…
Matt Pomroy 