Holiday giveaway #2 on Selectism. Our friends at Tres Bien offer up to you readers a Byredo Eau de Parfum Adventure Set of fragrances to keep you proper. The “I Married Adventure” box consists of five of Byredo’s best selling fragrances in small 30ml packages. Each fragrance tells a “story” unique to its origin location – India, Africa, and various European stops.

We’ve made it pretty easy to enter and win.

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We’ll randomly choose a retweet as the winner on Dec 11th. Good luck.

When two nice guys based in New York get together to produce shoes, you get some of the rare British bits not crafted by Polish people. Both the Longwing Brogue and Suede Cap Toe Patton Boot are made in Northampton, a town known for shoes and being Britain’s 3rd most populated town. Built on a Goodyear welt, they’ve got a red brick sole (the fantastic touch of Mr. McNairy) and will assist in making you look smart. Or “get handsome.” From ACL.

The shop also has another offering from McNairy’s Red Brick Sole and the full line is filtering into other stock lists. Worth a gander as well.

Images of boots follow.

We’ve been fans of Oki-Ni for eons. So when the opportunity to take over their style section for a week, we jumped at it. Over the next four days, we’ll be showcasing four different outfits, showing the styling tips we’ve been recommending (check clashing, etc) and how we’d put together an outfit entirely from Oki-Ni stock. Come back tommorow to see the first look.

We tried to hate this, we really did. The whole concept sounds ridiculous – a Lanvin necklace that spells out Lanvin in graffiti style writing? – but the end result is actually far better than we imagined. Just don’t go wearing these to any hip hop events – Jay-Z might start rapping about it.

Two SL faves met up when Goodhood interviewed Paul Smith, who dropped by to visit them. At first glance it’s a bizarre pairing, the man known for his signature stripe and the Shoreditch based streetwear store. However, it’s not so bizarre given that Smith’s Japan line, R.Newbold, is stocked there. An interesting point is made when the designer is asked about how he continues to find inspiration.

“I find inspiration from everywhere, for instance on the way here we passed a tiny building squashed between two big ones in Clerkenwell – for me that makes me think of a small pocket on a big jacket or a small garment in a big window, just by observing around you, its all there if you want it – you’ve got to train your eyes to look.”

Read the full interview here.

Sweden’s Burglar Company Ltd is a workwear forward company that focuses more on the craft of garment making.  Inspired by Navy and American work wear-look, urglar Company Ltd’s run of goods are all” all handmade and using vintage construction techniques to give the complete look. Original Wakayama looms are behind every piece in the selection. The colors are predominantly heavy, consisting mixed off-white and grey with elements of indigo. To get the full look you can also find a knitted scarf and the Jersey-sans-culottes in the collection.”

More looks from the Buglar Company Limited Autumn/Winter 2008 collection after the click.

There are some interesting details that make this Petar Petrov button down shirt selective. The long sleeve button down shirt in white features a hidden placket and patch pocket at chest. Check the jersey lined elbow slits and single button sleeve cuffs for finishers. Ssense has it for 263$US.

More looks at the Petar Petrov Elbow Detail Shirt after the click.

(via cqc)

01. Tuftless Lounge Chair by George Mulhauser for Plycraft

“Plycraft is known for producing the most common mimicry of the famous Eames Lounge, but Über Modern has a less common version of Mulhauser’s lounge chair without tufting buttons and with a plywood base. As far as I know, it’s incorrectly labeled a “Mr. Chair” — that was the moniker for this Mulhauser model.” (mcm)

02. ‘Boy Lilikoi’ by Jónsi

“Earlier this morning I got an email letting me know that a new song by Jónsi was available for download called Boy Lilikoi. From what I’ve been able to put together it looks like he has an album coming out through XL Recordings called Go which is goingto be coming out March 22, 2010. The song itself is amazing, and it’s totally sung in English! I was totally shocked when I heard it, I couldn’t believe that he wasn’t singing in his traditional Hopelandic style.” (+kn)

03. 2010 Grammy Nominations: Not Too Exciting

“The 2010 Grammy Awards will be held in Los Angeles on Sunday, January 31. Last night we found out who could potentially take home tiny gramophones and forever-after be referred to as a “Grammy-winning artist,” which I guess still means something to certain people. There were not too many surprises in the nomination announcements: Beyoncé led the pack with 10 noms, while Kanye West, Jay-Z, Maxwell, Taylor Swift, Kings of Leon, Lady Gaga, and Bruce Springsteen are all up for a host of awards, too. Seems safe to say Gaga’s outfit– or an awkward Swift/Kanye moment– will be the only thing people talk about anyway.” (p4f)

04. Premier Barrel (above)

“Returning to the “good old days” of Victorian Music Hall for it’s inspiration, our new ceramic decanter goes by the name of PREMIER BARREL, and replicates Scotch Whisky Decanters from the late 1800’s. Actually, it also looks like an old fashioned bed-pig, designed to keep you warm on cold winter nights – a job its Malt Selection can still do for you!” (potw)

It looks like some Rhode Island School of Design students had nothing better to do than grow some hair on their face and make a calendar out of it. It’s photographed in medium format black and white by Ricky Chapman. We’re hoping that in the end they did it for International Mustache Month (which was in November of course). Either way, it’s an well done project that brings some shine to RISD and it’s only 15$US. Available through RISD and Brown University bookstores and online.

More looks from the The Moustache Calendar 2010 after the click.