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Friday, June 1st, 2012

Watch | Baxter of California – Grooming Guide

A pretty cool video from The Baxter of California crew. An old fashioned take on the grooming process. Perhaps you’ve got your routine down and any outside advice is just an insult to you’re olympic standard ablutions. Even so, this…

Review | Imperial Pomades

As mentioned in my “pomadessey” a couple of weeks ago, tinkering with your hair is about evolution. The moment you close yourself off to change is the moment you become a dodo. You have got to change with your hair.…

Style Guide | Classic Hairstyles Made Modern – With Beard; Two Ways

When Ian sat down in the chair, he had long hair and a long square beard. He is something of an outdoorsman and wanted to keep a full beard that would still look acceptable at a dinner table with two…

Australian brand Aesop have put together a kit for Mr Porter containing some of their most popular Man-products. A toiletry bag offering face cleanser, hydrating cream, shaving serum, spray-on moisturiser and lip cream, the popularity of the words ‘Dapper’ and…

Style Guide | Classic Hairstyles Made Modern – A David Lynch Riff

The second haircut in our series of classic men’s cuts with contemporary executions was inspired by one of the best haircuts on the planet. It belongs to David Lynch and, as we understand it, he’s had it cut by the…

Buyer’s Guide – A Pomade Odyssey

This is not a definitive guide to pomade. No such thing can properly exist, because pomade is for hair and nobody’s hair is quite alike. Plus, everybody styles their hair in a different way. So try and ignore the word…

Style Guide | Classic Hairstyles Made Modern – The Chef’s Dilemma

The popularity of Mad Men highlights many disparities between fashion sensibilities of the late 1950s/early ’60s and those of today. Hair is a fine example. Men in that world tended to have crisp haircuts with clean parts and smooth lines.…

Watch | “Mansome” Trailer

From executive producers Will Arnett, Jason Bateman and Ben Silverman comes a look at the new male identity for the 21st century. The new documentary, Mansome, collection through hilarity the voices of the modern man and the lengths they will…

Richmond Soap Studio for Need Supply Co. – Soap on a Rope

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A damn-near necessity for public showers, soap on a rope is usually a pragmatic affair—basic soap, basic rope, basic cleanliness. Need Supply Co. has teamed with Richmond Soap Studio and upped the profile of this utilitarian wonder with a clever…

F.S.C. Barber Candle

Not content offering just haircuts and straight-razor shaves, grooming gurus F.S.C. Barber have entered the candle racket. This long-burning soy-blend candle comes in an enamel camping cup and gives off the odor of a great many woods—among them vetiver, cypress…

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Friday, June 1st, 2012

Watch | Baxter of California – Grooming Guide

Thursday, May 31st, 2012

Review | Imperial Pomades

Tuesday, May 29th, 2012

Style Guide | Classic Hairstyles Made Modern – With Beard; Two Ways

Aesop for Mr Porter – ‘The Dapper Gentleman’ Kit

Monday, May 21st, 2012

Style Guide | Classic Hairstyles Made Modern – A David Lynch Riff

Friday, May 18th, 2012

Buyer’s Guide – A Pomade Odyssey

Monday, May 14th, 2012

Style Guide | Classic Hairstyles Made Modern – The Chef’s Dilemma

Tuesday, April 24th, 2012

Watch | “Mansome” Trailer

Thursday, April 12th, 2012

Richmond Soap Studio for Need Supply Co. – Soap on a Rope

Monday, April 9th, 2012

F.S.C. Barber Candle