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Men's Style
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6 Things No Man Should Wear On A First Date
First dates are always going to be a stressful experience; you’re jacked up on the could-be-lethal combination of adrenaline, the pressure to be charming and the hope of getting laid, with the...
7 Ways To Make A Boring Wardrobe More Stylish
It’s not that hard to dress well, particularly if you strenuously avoid trends in favour of stuff that won’t go out of date in six months. A couple of well-fitting suits. An...
The Right Way To Button Up Absolutely Everything In Your Wardrobe
It seems so simple. If there’s a button, you button it. But nowhere in menswear has as many tripwires as how you fasten your clothes.
Get it wrong and you’re look like you’re...
12 Menswear Pieces That Only Get Better With Age
The best things in life get better with age: wine, cast iron pans, Messrs Clooney or Beckham (take your pick). It’s a rule that’s equally true of the enduring icons of the...
How To Buy A Damn Good Suit, As Revealed By Tailors
No matter our occupation, we’re all in the business of self-salesmanship. Every day we set about selling ourselves to employers, clients and potential partners (whether professional or romantic). And there’s no more...
The Best Dressed Men Of The Week
Who: Jamie Foxx Where: Maxim Hot 100 Party, Los Angeles Despite well-documented feuds with LL Cool J and Colin Farrell, Jamie Foxx paints a more harmonious picture in his wardrobe....
7 Of The Best Musicians Turned Fashion Designers
Rock stars and models have been hooking up since the days of Beethoven (probably), so it’s only natural that music and fashion’s relationship would eventually go deeper.
Front rows are regularly peppered with...
The 15 Best French Menswear Brands
The appeal of French style is everlasting, and with good reason. Bringing together glamour, finesse and sophistication, the country is famed for its considered design approach that continually favours quality over quantity.
While...
How To Dress Like A Man In 2024
Designers have an odd habit of working in contrast to the uniforms we’re supposed to wear. Take tailoring, for example: at the start of the decade, as office dress codes relaxed in...
Signature Style: A Complete Guide To Dressing Well Every Day
Few things make getting dressed simpler than having a signature style. It means you know what works for you and how to put it together. It helps you navigate the rails in...
The 20 Greatest Trainers Of All Time
Some trainers blaze a trail and burn-out. Some never go away. Take the Chuck Taylor All Star: introduced 100 years ago, in 1917, today Converse still sells around 270,000 pairs every day....
9 Style Lessons From Mahershala Ali
Mahershala Ali is now two for two at the Oscars. He became the first Muslim actor to win an Academy Award, for his turn as drug dealer Juan in Moonlight. This year,...
Menswear’s Finest Most Hated Faux Pas
Fashion is – at heart – about the tension between rules and creativity. The blossoming of ideas on a handful of catwalks which quickly coalesce into a diktat.
It's a cycle accelerated by...
5 Items That Have No Place In A Man’s Spring/Summer Wardrobe
For all intents and purposes, the fact that you are here, reading this, signals that you're a) not a douchebag and b) on a quest to be the best-dressed version of yourself....
5 Pieces From 2014 To Banish From Your Wardrobe
2014 was a big year for trends. Not necessarily all-encompassing, full look, 'change your entire wardrobe' trends, but more the kind of individual 'staple item' trends that all and sundry buy into....
Suede gets a bad rap. No, its peach-delicate nap won't be winning any awards for its practicality (or lack thereof), but there's more to this fabric than its potential for stains. Suede...
The Best Dressed Men Of The Week
Who: Armie Hammer Where: Free Fire Premiere, Los Angeles Armie Hammer's on-screen wardrobe has spanned several decades, but in real life his look is timeless. While gracing the premiere of...
FashionBeans Q+A Readers’ Questions – June 2015
Resident style consultant and founder of men's style blog The Chic Geek, Marcus Jaye answers the latest batch of reader’s questions in this month's FashionBeans Q&A... Back To School...
Men’s Suitcase Style Essentials: The Summer Holiday
Holiday season is well and truly under way and the fortunate amongst us will be absconding for some much-needed time out over the coming weeks. So we've compiled...
The Brands That Make James Bond
No matter how 'gritty' James Bond's recent cinematic appearances are intended to be, the fact remains that 007 is a fictional character. But that's not to say the man can't teach you...
12 Classic Items That Should Be In Every Man’s Spring Wardrobe
Aside from athleisure and the occasional mankle, on the whole fashion portmanteaus represent the worst aspects of getting dressed – think ‘mewellery’ or ‘meggings' and shudder.
Even worse, though, is ‘sprinter’ - the...
How To Wear A Suit In 7 Modern Ways
The default uniform of office worker drones, barely changed since the time of Beau Brummell, the suit can understandably feel like a horsehair-canvassed straightjacket on self-expression. But it doesn’t have to be...
The One Piece Of Menswear To Steal From Every Style Tribe
At the beginning of the 2004 coming-of-age classic Mean Girls, the earnest protagonist Cady Heron gets led through the school cafeteria by recently made acquaintances Damian and Janis. Through the scene, the pair...
6 Style Moves To Steal From A$AP Rocky
Five years ago, if you’d have asked us to tell you who or what A$AP Rocky was, we’d have guessed it was a new straight-to-DVD take on Sly Stallone’s boxer saga.
In 2016,...
