Posts by Kevin Harson
The Best Body Wash for Your Particular Skin
Whether you’re on the hunt for the best bar soaps or the best body wash for men, it really is just a matter of preference. Both use the same key ingredients to cleanse, nourish, and refresh skin. And when it comes to the best way to scrub-a-dub-dub, you need to find one that agrees with…
Read MoreWant to Look Famous? Wear These Iconic Frames
The best aviator sunglasses for men have always been cool, but I first became enamored with them as a kid, watching reruns of CHiPs before school. The plot lines were largely forgettable. The reflective, teardrop-shaped frames those fictional highway patrol officers swore by? Not so much. Once I moved on from spending my mornings with…
Read MoreEverybody at GQ Owns This Effortless Spring Coat
It would be unfair to say that the trench coat is back, since it never really went away. But there’s something in the air (or the water cooler) at GQ HQ right now, because each morning, a who’s who of my colleagues arrive at work wrapped in their trenches, protecting their big fits from the…
Read MoreElite World Group Ventures Into Apparel With Freddy Linkup and Capsule Collection
ACTIVE MODEL: Elite World Group, the fashion talent management network, is getting active and into fashion collections. The company on Thursday unveiled a partnership with Italian sportswear and activewear brand Freddy, which it characterized as a licensing agreement to develop apparel and fashion pieces. The first joint effort is a capsule comprising women’s and men’s…
Read MoreEXCLUSIVE: Cultured Magazine to Launch Cultured at Home in October
HOME RUN: Cultured Magazine, the independent art, design and architecture magazine that broke onto the scene in 2012, is gearing up to launch its first volume of Cultured at Home. Slated for October, the new annual design-focused print edition will be guest edited by Alexandra Cunningham Cameron, curator of contemporary design at the Cooper-Hewitt, Smithsonian…
Read MoreItalian Sustainable Shoe Brand and Consultancy ACBC Sells Majority Stake to Swiss Fund
MILAN — Italian sustainable shoe brand and consultancy ACBC — known for its modular sneakers engineered with a zipper system that ties together the sole to several variants of the upper part — has found an investor. The company said Thursday that it has sold a majority stake to Gyrus Capital, a European investment firm operating…
Read MoreThis $550 Dive Watch Breathes New Life Into a Scuba Classic
Dive watches, much like crustaceans, cephalopods, and other creatures of the deep, come in a myriad of different species and subspecies. These include sleek desk divers (pro-spec underwater watches that are refined enough to wear with a suit); beefy ultra-deep divers (ones whose XXL cases are water-resistant to 500m or more); GMT divers (ones with…
Read More26 Ways to Dress for the Beach, According to the Most Stylish Men of All Time
A wife pleaser with a whole whack of dangly chains (and maybe a trim tuft of chest hair)? Yes, thank you, more please. Rethink Flannel The Beach Boys, 1962 Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images You might associate flannel shirts with lumberjacks in the dead of winter, but as the Beach Boys so smartly demonstrate here, they’ve…
Read MoreThese Seven Albums Created Modern Stand-Up Comedy
Early in his career in New York, playing Village basket houses, he was a crossover act, popular with largely white crowds, performing a cerebral, conceptual act that a modern viewer would understand as improv play. He hadn’t ever quite fit in the Chitlin Circuit tradition of Black comedians playing to mostly Black audiences, like his…
Read MoreFellas, It’s Time to Secure the Gucci Bag Mom Deserves
Moms—the really good ones—spend all year long thinking about you. If you’re emotionally fulfilled and intellectually nurtured. If you’re stretching yourself just enough to squeeze the good stuff out of life. If you’re eating your veggies, texting your dates back, and wearing sunscreen. So for Mother’s Day, it’s worth returning the favor—even just for a…
Read MoreBasicNet Names Alessandro and Lorenzo Boglione Co-CEOs
MILAN — The Italian BasicNet, parent to K-Way, Superga and Sebago, among other fashion companies, has set in motion its succession plan — and it’s all in the family. The publicly listed company said Thursday that Alessandro and Lorenzo Boglione, sons of BasicNet founder and president Marco Boglione, have been appointed co-chief executive officers of…
Read MoreRimowa’s High-tech Meets Handmade Aesthetic Store Opens on New Bond Street
LONDON — Luxury brands are flocking to New Bond Street and Rimowa is adding to the shifts. The German luxury luggage brand opened its new store on the street after relocating from down the road. The new space spans across five floors with a dedicated area for client care that includes repairs such as telescopic…
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