Articles of Section 'Menswear'.

Georgia Straight Style | Menswear
Guy style
By Craig Takeuchi and David Chau
Technicolour dreamcoat Guys can finally apply Adhesif to their wardrobes. This fall, the locally made line presents its first male selection with the Jammer Jacket. It’s a patchwork of salvaged stretch-wool, in a kaleidoscope of cubist combinations that includes colours such as burgundy, chartreuse, and grey. A thoughtful touch is pockets roomy enough for carrying digital accessories. Each piece is one-of-a-kind and goes for $210.
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Georgia Straight Style | Menswear
Guy style
By Craig Takeuchi and David Chau
Technicolour dreamcoat Guys can finally apply Adhesif to their wardrobes. This fall, the locally made line presents its first male selection with the Jammer Jacket. It’s a patchwork of salvaged stretch-wool, in a kaleidoscope of cubist combinations that includes colours such as burgundy, chartreuse, and grey. A thoughtful touch is pockets roomy enough for carrying digital accessories. Each piece is one-of-a-kind and goes for $210.
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Menswear
How high can guys go? The long and short of it
By JJ Lee
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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Style Watch | Menswear
Guys: be a one-man Valentine’s gift, but do it right
By JJ Lee
It’s time to get sexy.
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Menswear | Kool Thing
Black pretied bow tie
By Amy Lu
This fall, it's more about bits and pieces of menswear incorporated into a very feminine look.
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Menswear | Kool Thing
Blue pinstripe shirtdress
By Amy Lu
What: Blue pinstripe shirtdress
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Menswear
Redefining history in jeans
By JJ Lee
Jason Trotzuk approaches his work like a painter or a sculptor.
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Style Features | Georgia Straight Style | Menswear
Construction Chic
By JJ Lee
Workwear has that undeniable masculine-rugged thing going on—so lace up some big-lugged boots
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Menswear
Suit up, but not like dad
By JJ Lee
A nice dinner date is the classic idea for February 14. And as New York menswear writer and designer Alan Flusser once told me, “If you walk into a restaurant and you’re not known and you want to get a good table, a suit and tie will go much further down that road than any other form of dressing.”
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Menswear
Sophistication is in the cards
By Guy Babineau
Cognito: Modern Wisdom for Dining and Social Etiquette is a trendy-looking, tastefully packaged deck of protocol cards just in time for the fast-approaching festive season’s endless parties and its endorsement of good will among men and women. It landed on my desk soon after Peter MacKay’s recent fuddle duddle and Norman Spector’s follow-up comment on a Vancouver radio station.
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Menswear
Vancouver's menswear gets a Brazilian boost
By Guy Babineau
Leave it to two ambitious young Vancouver companies created by people who came from somewhere else to identify a niche that needed filling and do something about it, with impressive results.
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Menswear
Handbags for men come fashion full circle
By Guy Babineau
To any guys out there who still think that carrying a purse is effeminate: the 20th century just called and wants its fanny pack back.
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Menswear
Main attracts boys and men
Fashion walks the streets, and guys eager for a more of-the-moment look might want to check out one street in particular””Main Street””where the mainstream and marginal mix it up.
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Menswear
Local shops help guys sex it up with Pride
By Guy Babineau
Men who want to be part of the eye candy come Pride Day can check out a number of stores in and adjacent to the West End that are stocked with all the current trends in gay apparel.
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Menswear
Dad deserves class, from skin care to silver
By Guy Babineau
Many years ago, the comedian Bill Cosby said, “Fatherhood is pretending the present you love the most is soap-on-a-rope.”
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Menswear
Punk meets Pacific in reconstructed couture
By Guy Babineau
According to Raif Adelberg, the Sex Pistols were the first boy band.
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Menswear
Swedish Tiger claims catwalk
By Guy Babineau
Tiger of Sweden is marking new territory. The Scandinavian design house first flexed its muscles during the inaugural season of B.C. Fashion Week last year. It was back at BCFW with a vengeance on April 6 when its fall/winter 2006/'07 collection roared down the runway at the Scotiabank Dance Centre. Those in the packed auditorium were lucky to get a first glimpse of what has to be one the slickest, sexiest, and smartest menswear lines to come along in a while. Burberry and Duffer of St.
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Menswear
Soccer and Britpop give shop its stylish kick
By Guy Babineau
Back in the day, when Glyn Roberts was a young man in Manchester, England, he joined a semiprofessional local soccer team, except of course they call it football over there. At the time, he was a stylist for Vidal Sassoon and everyone else on the team was a plumber, bricklayer, or mechanic.
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Menswear
With Momentum, here come the groomed
By Guy Babineau
Let's be honest; I like men," says Graham Bingham, a likable man himself. The co-owner of Momentum Advanced Grooming Solutions (1237 Burrard Street), which he runs with his partner in life and work, Robert Graham, is sitting in a stylish black-leather chair in the cleanly designed shop. The atmosphere is relaxed and manly, with a subtle barbershop ambience. A selective mix of skin care, shaving, fragrance, and men's makeup products is displayed on well-lit, uncluttered shelves.
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First Nations male role models strike a pose
By Guy Babineau
What separates the men from the boys? It's not six-pack abs, a great butt, a nice package, or perfect cheekbones. It's character, as was evident during the December 1 launch at Sonar of the BC Aboriginal Distinguished Men 2006 calendar, featuring photographs by Suzette Amaya of 26 very hot guys from across the province.
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Menswear
New spice instead of old
By Guy Babineau
All too often, the festive season turns from merry to scary when a man spills out the stocking or tears open the wrapping paper only to reveal some aberration of men's fashion. Where do they come from? Probably the same place garden gnomes do. Don't even get me started on tube socks and Old Spice.
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Menswear
Obakki's got your back —and your butt, too
By Guy Babineau
A warm blast of spring air heated up the late-fall runway at Performance Works when Dave Wallace of Obakki (205-332 Water Street) presented his 2006 menswear designs during the recent B.C. Fashion Week. Each season, BCFW sponsors one new, up-and-coming company or designer. It's no wonder the organizers selected Obakki, which also produces kick-ass women's apparel (www.obakki.com/).
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Menswear
Fall updates on the trad suit
By Guy Babineau
In times of social upheaval, like now, people yearn for something they can depend on, and fashion falls into step. Three dominant trends in menswear this fall are the suit, romance, and elegance, all delivered with a nod to tradition. Designs are status-conscious and revitalize fashion's original purpose: to clearly distinguish a man's place in the pecking order. In medieval Europe, where fashion as we understand it was born, mandatory dress codes were enforced.
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Style Features | Georgia Straight Style | Menswear
Suitability
A new fashion season can be an evolution so gradual you're hardly aware of it, or, as is happening this fall, it can be a complete revolution. But relax, it's a refined one. This isn't a season that shouts. Instead, colours, shapes, and mood all have a fresh, pared-down elegance. For starters, expect to see a darker, more sophisticated palette than we're used to.
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Menswear
It's a revolution, comrades
By Guy Babineau
Heat up the samovar (or pour the good vodka), crack open the collected stories of Anton Chekhov (or rent the DVD of Dr. Zhivago), then dip a cracker in the caviar and kick up your feet at the dacha. In a nation that boasts more billionaires than any country except the United States, where life expectancy for the average male is only 60, where "hard-currency" prostitution is rampant and you can rent a trip on a rocket ship for US$20 million, it's fair to say that anything goes.
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