JJ Lee

How high can guys go? The long and short of it

By JJ Lee | June 19, 2008

At an Obakki fashion show, attendees don’t hem or haw when it comes to the subject of men’s shorts.

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Short shorts? Get a leg up on whatâ��s chic now

Short shorts? Get a leg up on what’s chic now

By JJ Lee | June 12, 2008

Judging by what’s hanging from retailer racks and the derrií¨res of gamines, hottish pants and short shorts will hold sway once again on the beach and on the streets this season.

Bespoke tailoring makes the well-suited man

By JJ Lee | April 10, 2008

Beware. Once you’ve stepped over the threshold of young-gun tailor David Wilkes’s studio, you’ll never be able to wear an off-the-rack suit again without your soul dying a little

Femme tie girls show boys how neckwear should be done

By JJ Lee | April 3, 2008

This spring body-hugging, white shirts with structured collars will be paired with black shorts or skirts.

For aspiring Vancouver’s Next Gay Top Models, a shirt-ripping night

By JJ Lee | March 6, 2008

Beautiful, smooth, flawless skin. Lanky limbs. Waspish waists. Heaving chests under which young, spirited hearts beat to the silent song of innocence. Laid out before all, within reach of outstretched arms, are a dozen samples of delectable eye candy.

Guys: be a one-man Valentine’s gift, but do it right

By JJ Lee | February 7, 2008

Snowboarders of the apocalypse

By JJ Lee | November 15, 2007

There's a breed of boarder on the hills who doesn't give a damn. This species toils on the night shift at the Boston Pizza, but in the day on a slope can land tricks good enough to make the cover of any snowboarding magazine.

Bags for blokes evoke space, graphic design

By JJ Lee | August 16, 2007

Men bear the curse of the murse, or man purse.

Keep your skinnies, but wide-legs put flare in your jeans

By JJ Lee | July 26, 2007

There's a rising tide that lifts all boats, or rather a rising wide–wide-leg jeans are hot, baby.

Urban-cool Hajnalka Mandula promises a black-magic summer

By JJ Lee | June 28, 2007

On a recent visit to the fashion pied-í -terre of local designer Hajnalka Mandula, there was a development application posted outside. Can the end be nigh for Mandula, her eponymous boutique at 882 Homer Street?