Best New American Menswear Designers, Fall 2010

It's that time again folks. The likes of (Andre 3000) Benjamin Bixby, (Justin Timberlake) William Rast and Shipley & Halmos have been mentioned in the past and have ALL went on to have acclaimed and successful brands. This year should result in the same.



For the full spread follow the link.

But.... If You're About Breaking Hearts

A man knows how to start something as well as finish it so if you plan on dumping the honey on V-Day (or anytime soon) here's a few pointers to handle the task.

A Man's Guide to Surviving Valentine's Day 2010

Not everybody can fly wifey to Paris at the swipe of a black piece of plastic for a show so GQ has mapped out a fine list of tips and suggestions for the baller and the guy on a budget alike. It's worth the click (or effort) to make a pretty little something smile on that day. If you play your cards right, sex is a given. But so will the massages and a few extra tricks LOL

Click the link.

Patton Oswald Interview in GQ

One of my favorite comedians that I've recently (over the past few years) actually discovered the genius of was interviewed in GQ's blog "The Verge".....

In one way or another we all have probably witnessed a bit of his genius (rumor has it he's getting a lot of work as a writer) so here's a little treat. The link to the interview after the jump.




Patton Oswald interview.

GQ Trend Report: 13 You Need to Know Now

Sammy Davis to Miles. Michael Caine to Pharrell. An imperative trait of a true gentleman is being well-dressed. It boost confidence, sex appeal, and heightens public perception of you. Besides that, nobody will disrespect your dead body and dress you badly in your coffin.


That being said, GQ just dropped their top trends for the upcoming Autumn/ Winter season. I've got a few favorite picks and you all can click on the link to see what's up for everything else.

MJ Covers GQ's September 2009 Issue

I'm currently reading the article and this shit is epic....

R.I.P.: King Of Pop.... You've changed lives, and you're one of the coolest people in HISTORY!

You're constantly been missed and will remain that way for eternity

Noted as one of GQ's trends for Fall 2009. I read a review of it and it seems like a bookshelf staple for a well-dressed man.

Hell, check out the definitive looks in general for clothing too. You may see something that you'll want when the wind hits you.

Gucci Icon: Temporary Pop-Up Sneaker Stores

Just like everyone else out here trying to stay above water during these hard times, Gucci will be opening up a few temporary pop-up shops worldwide in order to increase revenue down another avenue.

The flash sneaker store will touch down in six or seven locations around the world where tastemakers gather, such as Art Basil in Miami Beach, staying open for two or three weeks in each spot. The first stop on the tour will be Crosby Street in SoHo on Oct. 23. Other stops will include London, Berlin, Paris, Hong Kong and Tokyo.

Gucci Icon-Temporary units will feature 18 exclusive sneaker styles — 16 for men and two for women. Incorporating classic Gucci design elements such as the GG logo and a stylized version of the Gucci red-and-green web detail, each shoe has an embroidered “Limited Edition” label inside and a silver or gold metal dog tag hanging from the laces. Leather tags on shoe laces can be customized and embossed with a shopper’s initials.

In addition to the Limited Edition shoes, Frida Giannini, Gucci’s creative director, collaborated with DJ, music producer and sneaker enthusiast Mark Ronson on the design of Gucci Ronson sneakers. A new Gucci Ronson version will be introduced at every leg of the itinerant project. Icon-Temporary sneakers are priced from $500 to $1,400, and Gucci Ronson shoes, $500 to $600.



Personally, I'm not too excited about the collaboration with Ronson (like most of them Hypebeasts that bashed him AND Gucci today LOL)

Click here for the full press release via Hypebeast

And here for GQ's positive review...

GQ's Project Upgrade: Golf Style

It's time to hit a driving range and talk money with my peers.... LOL

GQ Thinks Obama Made A Bad Style Decision

In this week's edition of Men.Style.Com's of the last week in review for men's style Obama gets first pic with a wave of the finger... LOL.... I mean hey, dude's not flawless... And he's a black man from Harvard- so one can either expect serious fly preppy style, or really bland casual style from those kinds...

Click here for the rest of the week's pics.

Hunter Parrish (from "Weeds") shoot for GQ

On Weeds, Hunter Parrish plays Mary-Louise Parker’s oldest son Silas, an attention-deprived kid who follows his mom into the cultivation business, beds desperate housewives and has the kind of unblemished good looks that exist only in the safety of television. In real life, the 21-year-old actor has never smoked pot, dates girls his own age, and has the vocal chops to moonlight in Broadway musicals. As the fifth season of Weeds takes off, we attempt to draw Parrish out of his notoriously nice shell...... (Follow link to continue to read interview)

Word of the Day: "Jet-Set"

There's power in money, but there's good looks in style.... Take the cake and eat it too...

Lil Wayne GQ Interview feat. Terry Richardson (photography)

From the outside, it seems like you’ve had a pretty incredible year this year. Kind of a breakthrough year. Does it feel that way to you?
Of course it was the biggest year of my life. Obviously. The VMAs were the biggest moment. That was the craziest, because I didn’t expect to do none of those things. Didn’t even contemplate once taking an award home. That was just over the mountain.

The payoff was sweet, of course, but the whole year has been mostly consumed with hard work. Everything that everyone see and notice, those things happen one day, one week, those things happen whenever. But I work every single day. I work every single hour. That’s what my year has been like. Work.

What about your album?
That was good. But there’s more to be done. People got to understand there’s no peak on record selling, there’s no limit, so you never reach your goal, you’re never satisfied.

And I expected to sell that much. Because I worked that goddamn hard. And it sounded that goddamn good. And that much better than everyone else’s.

So one of those working days, what’s it like? Your typical day.
A typical day for me? (To his road manager) Can I have a lighter? (Lights a blunt.) I get up, and if I’m not on the road or doing something like a photo shoot, I’m in the studio. I get up and eat breakfast, I have a great chef. The homies usually come over. We eat breakfast and shit.

My chef makes the same thing every day, just the full breakfast, scrambled eggs, bacon, toast, pancakes, sometimes waffles, fruit. Make sure that there’s everything you’re supposed to get.

You ever think about what happens when your record doesn’t open on top? Like where do you think you’ll be in ten years?
Nowhere. I don’t. That’s stupid. If anyone sees themselves in ten years they’re lying to themselves first, so you know they’re lying to you.

[A Lakers highlight comes on the flat-screen in the kitchen of his bus] Lakers my team. Cuz they got this creature on their team that’s unexplainably great, by name of Kobe Bryant. That’s just, just unreal. Until they don’t have him, I don’t understand why anyone else even play basketball.

[Then a LeBron highlight comes on the television] LeBron’s great, he gonna be better, because he’s younger, of course. That’s not even talent with LeBron, that’s magic. He may as well go on and tell everyone that he 35 years old, get it over with. He plays like a total man. He ain’t from Akron, he from Jupiter somewhere. Playing like that.

Speaking of Jupiter, you say on your records that you’re a Martian. What’s that mean?
Just out there, you know. Don’t like to think like everybody else, don’t like to try to think like everybody else, don’t like to do nothing everybody else think I’m gone do, don’t like to say nothing everybody else think I’m gone say.

I’m a Martian. I like to be different. And what’s more different than a Martian.

Seems at some point artists have to make the decision about whether they should be different or popular.
Not at all. It’s easy to be me.

That’s your first tattoo, right there, right?
My first tattoo is this tattoo right here, in memory of rabbit, it’s up to me. That’s my dad. He passed when I was 14, so I got it when I was 14.

How’d he die?
He got shot.

What were the circumstances of shooting?
Circumstances? Oh, right. None of nobody else’s business.

How did that affect you, you think?
I’m human. Affected me like it would affect anybody else I would imagine.

You close with your mom?
Very.

Where she living now?
None of your business.

Like what city?
None of your business. [laughing]

Okay. I guess we won’t talk about your family. What have you been up to this week?
I just came from L.A. I was doing a few things in L.A., closing a few deals out there. Did the commercial with LeBron. Other than that, I really been relaxing. I got a big tour coming up, so I’m trying to fall back until then. Come up with ideas for how that should go.

How do you keep track of ideas?
The good thing about that is that, thank God, I’m actually infatuated and in love with what I do, therefore I am what I do. So I never have to forget because I never have to remember, I just am. I don’t need to write stuff down.

What about your songs. You never write them down?
I just say it. Say it when it gets in my head, the beat. Whatever comes in my mind at that moment.

So it’s always spontaneous?
Of course. I believe anything other than that—then why go buy it? Then you could do it, she could do it.

I couldn’t do it even if I wrote it down.
But you could read what’s on the paper, right? So basically anybody that could read could recite it. That takes something away from it. But if I walk up to a guy and say “Rap for me,” he’s going to say something. His characteristics or whatever. I’m going to get what I love about him, just from his presence. That’s why you never saw me rap no TV shows. Other rappers be having to rap after an interview. So can you spit something for us? They never ask me to do that because the interview is so compelling that they actually got Lil Wayne.

I always tell somebody that’s why I am good, that’s why I’m okay, because I’m being me, I’m doing me. Now the day I gotta write stuff down—no one can believe what’s written down. Perfect example: If I was a bum and I told you I had a mansion around the corner and three Bentleys and twenty-eight bitches in my house butt naked waiting for me, you wouldn’t believe me. I’d say you stink, say Get out my face, give him $100, and say Get the fuck.

But if there was a book that said, there was this bum with a mansion with twenty bitches in it, you’ll try to use it and put it toward real life. That’s why I don’t write nothing down. That’s why I don’t believe the Bible, nothing that’s written, because nothing that’s written is to be believed.

So you don’t believe in books? Seems like you do a little bit of reading. Your raps have references to all sorts of stuff.

Read the full article right here..... -----> GQ.Com (It's inspired me to wanna be interviewed ALL THE TIME if I ever got famous LOL)