Introduction
Time to be shady about events.
It happens twice every year, four if you’re a real stickler, but leave the pedantic geography teacher at the door. I’m talking about seasonal change. No matter how prepared you anticipate you are; you never are. The first day that the sun arrives is the day it all goes tits [...]

Style Shrink Introduction
“So tell me when you first developed your fear of socks and sandals…”
Over the next few months you will see the FashionBeans site grow even bigger and sexier. And the writers… well they’ll just grow sexier and sexier.
I’d love to be able to tell you all the exciting upcoming features that are going [...]

Introduction
Hello to you who I now collectively refer to as ‘fashion beaners’.
Welcome to the men’s fashion round-up of the past weeks. This edition contains everything from news & shoes from your fashion gurus and jeans for the man of means, here on FashionBeans!
That was either incredibly cheesy or equally genius!
The opening months of the year [...]

In 1964, Hardy Aimes would have reluctantly redirected you from ‘Shorts’ to ‘Beachwear’.
He would have stated:
The natural desire to relax is often the cause of abandonment of all standards of taste. It is the Italians who arouse our admiration, but examination of their technique shows us that they are prepared to spend as much as [...]

SS10 is full of hat-worthy trends which is why I am going to turn you all into a hat-wearing cult bigger than the old-birds at Ascot! Hats, to the lesser fashion-literate, are an excuse not to be effed’ to do your hair. Booooo to you sir!
“A man should look as if he bought his clothes [...]

Labels We LOVE Introduction
There’s like this label that we sorta like love and stuff because it’s nice because we wear it as clothes and that, and I’m gonna like tell you about it and stuff because we like clothes and stuff cos that’s what we do on here.
Fundamentally I am done speaking like an idiot [...]

The Colour…
“Pantone is pleased to announce PANTONE 15-5519 Turquoise, an inviting, luminous hue, as the Colour of the Year for 2010. Combining the serene qualities of blue and the invigorating aspects of green, Turquoise inspires thoughts of soothing, tropical waters and a comforting escape from the everyday troubles of the world, while at the same [...]

PLEASE NOTE: This is only a short article and does become serious at some point. Somewhere around the middle. No a little further. Further. There we go…enjoy!
Now that the ceremonial kissing of random people & distant relatives (whose breath smells like that leftover Christmas turkey & boxing day egg rolls) is over for another [...]

Christmas is the only single time that parents and children alike are okay with letting and old [stranger of a] man come into your house while you are asleep. 364 other days of the year you would be screaming for your Dad to grab a golf club (or the bedside lamp in confusion) but not [...]

ATTENTION! An advent for the colder months, this is by far my favourite of any trend to grace the past decade!
The camouflage print has been a consistent appealer on the fashion ramps for many years. However, recently designers such as D&G, Burberry Prorsum, Alexander McQueen and John Galliano have delved deeper into the ranks of [...]

So many times has the same question been asked, “What the hell do you put in there?”
I started this article because the other day I had the joy of teaching a friend the wonders of a man-bag (albeit with the help of the not so ‘costa del sol’ British weather).
I was out shopping, and rocking [...]

Fresh off the back of this year’s blazer-filled and tailored trends; take note as I show you how to jingle all the way into the office party.
Inspired by the nostalgic values of the aristocracy and sleek vibe of the underground members clubs’ – make this year’s festive celebrations mingle amongst the extravagant and dabble in [...]