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My fellow FashionBeans writer Yvadney recently noted that one of the big up coming trends for spring is taking your look back to simple, no nonsense masculine style. So when penning my grooming article for this week, I thought what better way to compliment this trend than with the most masculine of accessories, the beard.
I [...]

Fashion week around the world is a place where fashionistas can spread their avant-garde, fashion wings. London Fashion Week AW10 was no exception.
LFW saw men take on skirts, fur, even heels, in fact this year the male of the species was definitely not fading into the background. Imagine a beautiful, country manor house surrounded [...]

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 [...]

Hello loyal readers, it’s been a while! How have you all been? Enough with the small talk, you are here for one reason and that is fashion. As you may of noticed I have taken an extended break from doing what I love, and that is writing articles for this great site. This is because [...]

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 [...]

Editor Introduction
Quite a few of our beloved writing team attended London Fashion Week and all of them came back with different interpretations of the runway shows, what they think was going to be big for the year and what they liked/disliked. Over the coming weeks you will find some of the team writing about key [...]

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 [...]

America, the home of Hollywood, the Statue of Liberty, baseball, Elvis, the Simpsons and errrr Britney Spears? Love it or hate it, you can’t get away from the USA and its global influence on our lives and our fashion. But rather than taking style inspiration from obvious American icons like Kanye West or George Clooney, [...]

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 [...]

Editor Note: This article coincided beautifully with the featured one below it, as earlier this week Marcus Rise detailed a great new trend that literally TOOK OVER the catwalks in the Spring/Summer preview runs… relaxed tailoring. Quite obviously the blazer was a massive part of this upcoming trend and featured in every high end designer’s [...]

PREP TIME!
Ok chaps, so were almost two full months into the New Year, and even though the recent weather has been a constant reminder that the warmer summer months are still a little way off, There’s no reason not to start building an idea of the type of pieces and styles you will be lining [...]

How not to look like a Panda
Heroin chic isn’t a great look, especially not for a guy. So don’t let dark circles ruin that outfit you’ve spent so much money and effort on.
Nine out of ten people have suffered with dark circles, under and around their eyes. The cause of it can be different for [...]

This article is not going to be as happy and dry humoured as my previous ones.
I just received a txt message saying I can’t believe what’s happened.
“What are you talking about?” was my reply. Then the news feeds started to pour through the web… Alexander McQueen has been said to have committed suicide, (however it [...]

Fashionbeans and TicWatches Competition
After the success of our Christmas Competition, TicWatches.co.uk and Fashionbeans.com have teamed YET AGAIN up to offer 3 Ice-Watches which are up for grabs to 3 lucky FashionBeans Readers!
The 3 watches are all superb and will look great on your arm this Spring/Summer. All the watches are Unisex, which means you can [...]

Once again fashion is causing a stir for people who have no intention in following it.
As the man skirt gets more and more popular, and we’re not talking traditional native kilts here, it is certainly causing a controversial debate not only among fashionistas but Liberal human rights organisations.
I am not yet sure if I am [...]

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 [...]

Right guys, there are so many D.I.Y fashion articles and blogs circulating the glossies and the web but most are aimed at the girls, with not much information for the boys. So I have decided it’s a good time to get one out there especially as most of us can’t afford to run out and [...]

Editor Note: A Saturday update? What is wrong with me?! Anyway Based on all the comments below I think I probably need to come back to this subject and explain a few things. Mark is in his thirties and wrote this article with the Title: “Fashion can be bought, style one must possess”. I changed [...]

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 [...]

Best Dressed Introduction
With 2009 done and dusted its time to look back through the year and give you Fashion Beans’ 5 Best Dressed Men of 2009. To find the Top 5 I have been asking the same question everywhere and to everyone, “Who do you think are the 5 best dressed men of 2009?” I [...]

Now, I really don’t know how the rest of you are feeling at the moment? But personally, I’m sick to death of winter. I’m sick of having to wear a coat all the time, I’m sick of never being able to feel my toes, I’m sick of the weatherman constantly trying to depress me and [...]

High street shopping is an inescapable commodity for the everyday dude – cheap and affordable is difficult to argue with. As much as you may loath the idea of being caught in the same outfit as someone else, the lure of affordable fashion is altogether too hard to resist. However, how can you avoid the [...]

While most of us chaps take time to grow into ourselves, learning to understand our physiques and wardrobe choices with advancing years, there was one man who achieved effortless sartorial perfection with an almost pathological aversion to following fashion and, well, crap clothes in general.
In his time Steve McQueen was the highest paid actor in [...]

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 [...]

Guys, it’s about time we all started dropping that ridiculously tight (and lets admit not exactly comfortable) crotch we have all been donning this 2009. Let the skinny legged acid washed denims take a well earned break. I am still feeling the bare ankle look that I’ve seen so many of you brave lot still [...]

Editor Note: This year expect a lot more grooming articles as they have been requested by a vast majority of our readers. Fashion doesn’t just mean the clothes you wear, personal style and becoming a well rounded male means that you need to look after every aspect of your life. This means looking and feeling [...]

Hello everyone! We are back and ready to go here at Fashionbeans. I hope you all had a great Christmas and Santa brought you those new Paul Smith shoes you wanted. Also Happy New Year to all of you, I hope you had a good one! This is going to be an amazing year, I [...]

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 [...]

Our AMAZING site sponsors Blue INC have just let us know about a brilliant SALE that launches on the 23rd of December. With prices already low and their clothes bang on trend for the season, now is a great time to pick up those trend pieces you wanted to try but never had the money [...]

A Touch Of Vintage
As most of us are aware, fashions come and go… and then in most cases come back around again. The one thing this tell us is that there will always be a place for Vintage or Retro clothing within the fashion market. Now, the term Vintage or Retro is used when describing [...]

Editor Note: Welcome to FashionBeans.com first EVER street style post. My two amazing writers Lee Malone and Dara Ohanlon (works on the women’s side), recently attended the Clothes Show live in Birmingham to get the scoop on the major fashion trends for next year, as well as seeing what was massive this season as well. [...]

Hey there loyal reader… it’s been a while. I have been working so hard this Christmas I have found myself with no time to contribute opinions to my own site. I hope you have all enjoyed the new writing team’s thoughts though? I think they have done a great job picking up the slack whilst [...]

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 [...]

Editor Note: Layering is maybe one of the most important skills (yes skills) you can learn if you want to be considered a fashionable male. In my eyes it is the KEY to fashion – once you have layering down then you will continue to produce high quality outfits on a consistent basis. My look [...]

So we are nearly at Christmas and next week I think I will do a few articles on what to stick on your Christmas list, and maybe even a few ideas from our women’s writing team for the love of your life. I hope you are all excited at this time of the year?! I [...]

Dear god darling, where is my raincoat?
Walking to work in London with out an umbrella is always a mistake, in which case how does one stay dry. What does the fashion conscious gentleman do in such a situation? I have the answer, and Its Aquascutum. The king of raincoats. I have no personal affiliation with [...]

So a new round up this week from yours truly. I hope you are enjoying the articles from my newly assembled crack writing team?! I have been ploughing on a lot recently trying to get the site as perfect as it can be, although this is my third article this week and it seems I [...]

This will be absolutely massive news for some of our readers who love their All Saints clothing. They told us about it last night but we thought we would let you all know about it first thing this morning. They now have 20% OFF loads of lines on site, in their mid-winter SALE. So if [...]

We touched on this is my fashion roundup last week, but today I wanted to do a full write up on it for all of you. A few weeks back MyWardrobe asked me to write some top tips for their men’s style guide which has just been released. They got together and collaborated with some [...]

As you may know by now, Blue Inc are our premium sponsor who allow us to continue to write articles and maintain this site on a daily basis. They have just gotten hold of me to tell me that they have a great range of Christmas gifts available for men and women this year with [...]