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Shirts by Year Zero London

Richard wears Year Zero

Shopping for clothes on London’s Carnaby Street today is undoubtedly a more listless and pedestrian affair than in its modish 1960s heyday. Yet off the main thoroughfare a handful of side lanes have long held out as an enclave for less mainstream independent stores and designers. One of these is Year Zero London. Hello Kitty,…

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Product Spotlight: the Drake’s x Private White V.C. Work Shirt

Drakes Private White Outerwear

In the northern English city of Salford there exists an anachronistic relic of the Victorian age: the redbrick factory of Cooper & Stollbrand. Birthplace of the industrial revolution, the Greater Manchester area was once entirely filled with similar enterprises. Here were mills for the spinning of silk, cotton, and wool; industrial cathedrals echoing with the…

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Beyond Trends: Isaia Napoli Shirts Review

dress shirt collar, fabric closeup, Isaia Napoli Italy

Neapolitan tailoring firm Isaia had been quietly producing elegant menswear for over half a century when a few years ago the brand suddenly found itself the height of fashion. While many other Italian fashion designers had enjoyed decades of international celebrity, Isaia Napoli had been steadily simmering away for three generations without previously capturing the…

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