Fashion

Business Casual is an album by Canadian electro-funk duo Chromeo. Confusingly, business-casual is also a dress code – one that is as baffling as its inherently contradictory moniker. Business isn’t something that you want to be casual about. Which oxymoron came up with that not-too-smart idea? “Business-casual is one of those nonsensical dress codes, like
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It’s a hard life being a male model. To avoid the unimaginably awful fate of being just another pretty face, strings must be added to that really, really ridiculously good-looking bow. Today’s most influential male models aren’t so much seen and not heard, they’re seen, heard and then some. Rather than simply wearing the latest
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Tara Reid remembers watching E.T. as a kid and idolizing Drew Barrymore. “I wanted to be like her,” she says, revealing that the actress and beauty mogul inspired her to pursue a career in Hollywood. “Then, after American Pie, she came up to me at a sushi restaurant and said, ‘Oh my god, I love
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While Kendrick Lamar, the man Travis Scott supported on his monolithic Damn tour, is the undisputed king of hip-hop at the moment, rapper Scott is certainly head of the genre’s fashion department. Set to release one of the most hotly anticipated albums of the year this week and with a US number one album already
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We’ve all been there: missed the alarm, slept in, got a few minutes to leave the house… and no idea of what to wear. Or maybe you’ve finally got your hands on a killer biker jacket or that perfect pair of chinos, only to get home and realise they don’t go with anything in your
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Is there any other item in a man’s wardrobe that has the same transformative power as a pair of sunglasses? Within seconds you can go from sad dad squinting over the barbecue, eyes watering from the sun and pollen, to smooth rock star preparing to take the Pyramid stage by storm. No matter how debonair
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There was a time, not too long ago, when if you picked up a men’s style magazine, you couldn’t move for features on icons like Paul Newman, Steve McQueen and John F Kennedy. Fair enough. These guys had impeccable taste, it’s true, but they are all American and they’re also dead. We’re biased here at FashionBeans,
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We’re forever reminded of the importance of a #summerbod. As if billboards and instafeeds chock full of slicked-up six packs weren’t shaming enough, every inch of public greenbelt is awash with bodies that are better than yours come summer. And it’s hardly surprising many of us are miles from beach body-ready when we couldn’t be
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If there’s a more satisfying feeling when the sun starts to blaze than setting your out of office to ‘on’ and feeling sand between your toes, we’re yet to find it. Unfortunately, unless you’ve won the lottery, chances are you only get to do that for a week or two of the year, and the
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Bespoke, like luxury, is a word that is often abused, misused to give something that is neither ‘bespoke’ nor ‘luxury’ a gloss of sophistication or justify a high price tag. The truth is that bespoke – exclusively something made just for you – is arguably the greatest luxury. And perhaps no more so than when
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Most holiday style guides stop at suggesting a few T-shirts, a pair of swim shorts and some sunglasses for your travels. And we get it, all three are essentials when hopping across borders. But what if you skipped arm day, have no desire to take a dip and actually enjoy forcibly squinting at the sun?
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Ever sputtered expletives at an inside-out umbrella? Cursed its crappiness as it lay torn asunder, metal spines poking out like a dislocated elbow, after what was little more a light breeze? Sure you have, we’ve all been there. The reason you were led to ask an inanimate object, in your temporarily psychologically unsound state, why
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Unless you’re considering relocating to the Med this summer, chances are you’ll need footwear capable of withstanding more than the occasional shuffle between sun lounger and swimming pool. Not to mention something altogether more stylish (and better for your health) than those barely-there, floss-like flip flops knocking about in the bottom of your wardrobe. Hence,
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If you had any lingering doubt that 1990s street culture was back, the rise of skatewear into mainstream fashion should put the matter to rest. Because suddenly it’s everywhere. The skateboarders who most fashion editors would have once shooed away from the steps of the Palais de Tokyo have been invited inside to model what
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Although pretty much every man has worn a suit in his life, not every man has worn real tailoring. Unlike mass-produced two-pieces (which do the job for certain budgets and requirements) a bespoke or made-to-measure example crafted by a tailor is practically a piece of art for your body, with highly skilled hands – often
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