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Art Dad Style: Geoff McFetridge

August 9, 2018

Art Dad Style: Geoff McFetridge

Geoff McFetridge is one of those culturally omnipresent artists who, if you don’t know him, you probably know his work….

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Painting Patterns

July 10, 2017

Painting Patterns

Ever wonder what your clothes would look like disassembled? If you’ve ever flipped through a tailoring book (this is a…

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Arts and Craft: Celia Pym’s Darned Sweaters

June 6, 2017

Arts And Craft: Celia Pym’s Darned Sweaters

Check out this cool Norwegian sweater, which is a finalist in the Loewe Foundation Craft Prize competition and on display…

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Personal Details

October 7, 2016

Personal Details

Ed Ruscha gets his suits made for him at Huntsman, but he’s the one who gets to design the linings….

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Labeling Beauty: The Work of Joy Pitts

June 13, 2016

Labeling Beauty: The Work Of Joy Pitts

Some people resist labeling, but Joy Pitts has made a career out of it. The British artist recycles clothing labels…

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The Case for Color: the Style of David Hockney

May 5, 2016

The Case For Color: The Style Of David Hockney

You can steal wholesale from some style icons: McQueen’s sweatshirts, Dean’s jeans, Connery’s suits. But from others, you only hope…

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The Allure of a Painted Motorcycle Jacket

March 16, 2016

The Allure Of A Painted Motorcycle Jacket

Jesse recently asked our Twitter followers what they’d like to see on the blog and the consensus seemed to be:…

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When You Arrange, You Fail: Style and the Art of Fairfield Porter

January 14, 2016

When You Arrange, You Fail: Style And The Art Of Fairfield Porter

If that seems like the start of an interminable essay, don’t worry; I mostly want to post some of Mr….

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Artist Geoff McFetridge on style and DIY pants

September 16, 2015

Artist Geoff McFetridge On Style And DIY Pants

Artist Geoff McFetridge on style and DIY pants, via GQ: I’m really specific about the clothes I wear. It matters…

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Suit as a Canvas: Kehinde Wiley’s Awesome Tailoring

June 9, 2015

Suit As A Canvas: Kehinde Wiley’s Awesome Tailoring

You know artist Kehinde Wiley’s work when you see it: vividly toned portraits of people of color in classical settings…

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Toward a Shoe Abstraction

April 19, 2015

Toward A Shoe Abstraction

Artist Ellsworth Kelly’s studio shoes–appear to be camp moccs, much like this you can buy from makers like Quoddy. In…

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Kimono Exhibits

October 16, 2014

Kimono Exhibits

A bittersweet story in The New York Times recently. Textile historian Terry Satsuki Milhaupt was almost finished with her book…

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Frank O’Hara: poet, critic, New Yorker, OCBD wearer.

September 7, 2014

Frank O’Hara: Poet, Critic, New Yorker, OCBD Wearer.

Frank O’Hara: poet, critic, New Yorker, OCBD wearer. His poem [THE CLOUDS GO SOFT] also appears in a Jasper Johns…

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Dead Men’s Patterns

June 30, 2014

Dead Men’s Patterns

Want to start your week with something morbid? Hormazd Narielwalla is an artist that makes collages from bespoke tailoring patterns…

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Oh dang, Supreme.

May 2, 2013

Oh Dang, Supreme.

Oh dang, Supreme. You just got ethered by legendary artist Barbara Kruger, from whom you stole much of your steez….

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