A few of our friends worked on this new book from the Nylon world. “This follow-up to Nylon magazine’s breakout hit Street shows what trendsetters around the world are wearing today. Trusted as the definitive lens for cutting-edge style and emerging popular culture, Nylon has chronicled street fashion for more than ten years. In 2006, Nylon introduced Street: The Nylon Book of Global Style, which showcased the real-life style scenes in seven fashion-forward cities. In Street View, Nylon’s editors, writers, and photographers take to the streets again, returning to the ever-trendsetting meccas New York, London, and Tokyo, as well as showcasing four up-and-coming fashion capitals: Stockholm, Barcelona, L.A., and Montreal. Pictures of each city’s most innovative dressers are paired with quotes about sources of inspiration and favorite local stores and websites, so readers can see the look and deconstruct its creation at the same time. Street View will inspire any worldly fashionista and is a must-have for fans of the first book, as well as those looking at the street fashion for the first time.”

Available from Amazon.

Here is a collection of lookbook shots from the Lago Spring 2011 offering. The beauty of the collection comes from the choice color palette. The penguin jacket (above, right) against the “krawlie light blue” shorts works well to explore this territory. The “lith green” pants (above, left) may also have to land in our wardrobe soon.

More looks from Lagom Spring 2011 after the click.

Hammerthor has been manufacturing undergarments for quite some time. “Back in 1893, when the original Hammerthor quality was established, following the latest fashion was not so crucial. In those days, customers were more concerned with quality.” These shirts are amazingly comfortable and carry a distinct feel to the fabric. “As clothes were expected to last for many years, it was important that they were durable and practical.” If you’re looking for good undergarments this fall, these shirts are necessary. American Rag and DSM have them. (gb)

The way my grandfather tells it, each and every fall he skipped the first few months of school to work in Kent picking hops. The truth of this story notwithstanding, his hard work tales are the reason I know when hops are harvested.

Two Brothers Brewing Company, of Warrenville, Illinios, know just how to honor hops. The way they put it, “Heavy-Handed IPA is brewed to celebrate the harvesting of the hops every year. Within moments of harvest we add freshly picked “Wet Hops” to this IPA. Since the hops have not been dried before use, they add a wonderful character found in no other beer. A hop lovers dream.”

My own brother, something of a beer expert, says, “wet hop beers are the tits.” I wonder if Two Brothers bests Victory’s Hop Devil.

“From 1959 to 1972 the founder of Snickers Workwear, Matti Viio, worked as an electrician – first building high tension lines and then installing domestic and industrial wiring.” Viio suggested modifications to traditional workwear to his needs, but nothing happened. This spawned the birth of Snickers Workwear. The craftsmen shirt offers their “patented MultiPockets.” 100% Cotton Twill fabric allows for that true workman aesthetic. (gb)

Following up on the success of the King of Leon leather goods, Surface to Air, once again, works on a fresh collection with Scott Campbell. “S2A has the pleasure to present to you two leather jackets customized by American contemporary and tattoo artist Scott Campbell. The jackets are composed of leather applications covered in laser etched drawings. The applications are hand sewn using the famous ‘loop stitch’ technique inspired by original Hells Angels members jacket. The jacket ‘Dead Fucks,’ portrays funeral inspired drawings using classic Scott Campbell symbolism. The ‘Cobra Jacket’ shows an extremely intricate drawing of cobra heads intertwined and covering the entire back.

More looks at the Scott Campbell for Surface to Air Leather Jackets after the click.

The bi-annual delivery of J. Lindeberg’s tome is always a great day. Editors across the globe should have their copies landing any day now (if they have not already). Titled, “The Documentary and a Dream, the J. Lindeberg book is a collection of works from artists and photographers that complement their Autumn 2010 collection. The full book is available online.

Select images form the J. Lindeberg “The Documentary and a Dream” A/W 2010 Book after the click.

Opening on October 28, 2010, at the Whitney, Modern Life gets to the heart of American realism.

Modern Life: Edward Hopper and His Time traces the development of realism in American art between 1900 and 1940, emphasizing the diverse ways that artists depicted the sweeping transformations in urban and rural life that occurred during this period. The exhibition highlights the work of Edward Hopper, whose use of the subject matter of modern life to portray universal human experiences made him America’s most iconic realist painter of the 20th century. Drawn primarily from the Whitney Museum’s extensive holdings, Modern Life places Hopper’s achievements in the context of his contemporaries—the Ashcan School painters with whom he came of age as an artist in the century’s first decades, the 1920’s Precisionist artists, whose explorations of abstract architectural geometries mirrored those of Hopper, and a younger generation of American Scene painters, who worked alongside Hopper in New York during the 1930s.

Above: Edward Hopper 1882-1967, South Carolina Morning, 1955. Oil on canvas, 30 9/16 × 40 1/4 in.  (77.63 x  102.24 cm)  Frame 38 1/8 × 48 1/8 in. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Given in memory of Otto L. Spaeth by his Family  67.13 © Whitney Museum of American Art, NY.

The exhibition will close on April 10, 2011. Visit the Whitney to view images from the exhibition.

Now here’s one for you folks who don’t wanna give up the streetwear bug just yet. You know, the type who doesn’t want to look sharp but wants to look good. We’re looking out for you with a jacket like this – it’s not date wear but it’s suitable for just about everything else. And it’s navy (man’s official favourite colour – and that’s a fact) so you won’t have to worry about how to wear it and all that stuff that guys usually worry about. (Daniel Jenkins)

We’re suckers for an overshirt, especially when it’s just a little too warm for chunky knitwear. A piece like this isn’t going to revolutionise your wardrobe or anything fancy, but it’s a good – some might even say handsome – piece that’ll work with a lot of what you already have. And it’s made in America and all that jazz. (Superdenim)