iPad Case by Temple Bags
Apple’s iPad ships this Saturday. My friend, Temple Bags‘ Steve Opperman and his cohorts there, designed a case for it. It will be available on their site Friday.
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Black Watch on Mister Mort
Mister Mort, Mordechai Rubinstein’s online handle, has become my font of street style inspiration The Sartorialist once was. While the quality and content of Mr. Schuman’s photos continue to impress me, and while I still look to The Sartorialist for inspiration, at some point, his photos’ focus shifted from the general to the specific. As he’s granted access to fashion show after fashion show, it’s understandable how his eye could become trained on industry insiders instead of the old men of Harlem and hipster girls on bicycles I so looked forward to seeing each time I checked his blog. Whereas, with Mort it’s a veritable grab bag of the inside and outside, not only of the world of fashion, but of the actual garments themselves. I love his eye for detail, and I appreciate his desire to self-educate whenever possible.
Lately, I’ve been taken with three of his photos of my favorite tartan, the “government tartan,” Black Watch. The one above came from a trip to London which he took in the latter half of 2009.
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Plaidy: Sarah Reilly
A native of Southampton, New York, and a graduate of New York City’s prestigious Parsons School of Design, Sarah Reilly cut her teeth in the corporate world, designing denim for Abercrombie & Fitch and wovens for J. Crew and Madewell. Growing up, her parents helped her understand how the world around her benefits by living organically and sustainably. She says because of those experiences, “it became my dream for this line to embody the highest standard of ethic, both environmentally and socially.” Everything in the collection is made with organic materials. All of it is manufactured in New York City. She calls it Play.
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The Clancy Brothers & Tommy Makem on Ed Sullivan
The Clancy Brothers & Tommy Makem’s first appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show March 17th, 1961 catapulted them to international fame. They performed for a remarkable sixteen minutes. The set included “Brennan on the Moor,” “Ballinderry,” “Rising of the Moon,” and “Jig Dancing.” They wore their trademark Aran sweaters, which the Clancys’ mother purchased from Babington, a store in their home town of Carrick and sent so they wouldn’t catch cold in the winters of New York.
Keep America Weird
“When the textile mill goes, so does a way of life.” So reads today’s headline in USA Today.
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Winslow’s Home
To walk into St. Louis, Missouri’s Winslow’s Home is to step back in time. A general store owned and operated by Randy and Ann Sheehan Lipton, Winslow’s has fast become my home away from home.
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Standard Style, Kansas City
“Hey, Merry Christmas.”
“Merry Christmas to you, sir.”
“Ryan, what do you know about Standard Style in Kansas City?”
“Nothing.”
That’s more-or-less how the conversation began on Christmas Eve of last year when I called Ryan Plett, creator and moderator of the Denim Debate.
Steven Grasse of Art in the Age
Art in the Age is a store in Philadelphia’s Old City named for one of German essayist Walter Benjamin’s most famous works. It is the brainchild of advertising executive Steven Grasse. After reading two interviews with him this week, Mr. Grasse has fast become a hero of mine.
The man whom Philadelphia Magazine called, in the same breath, a Legend and a Mad Man, had some very inspired things to say.
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