The fine art of tailoring often feels like a bit of a closed off world. We’re not complaining, that’s what makes buying bespoke such a special experience. The years of training, apprenticeships and practice it takes to make a respected tailor is immense. Savile Row’s Thomas Mahon has twenty years experience in the game, having worked for some of the most respected names on the street including the legendary Anderson & Sheppard. Through his website, The English Cut, he offers a series of fascinating films shedding light on some of the traditional techniques used by himself and his peers. We won’t be picking up shears and chalk anytime soon, best left to the professionals, but take a look and prepare to be impressed.

01. Guto Requena (pictured)

“Guto Requena is one of Brazil’s most innovative up and coming architects. His work is based on the ever-evolving world of communication and technology, reflecting how these new advancements affect us. Drawing from his bucolic childhood in Brazil, Requena creates a world where flexibility and reclamation of materials and objects make the space both simple and comfortable.

His projects always push the envelope, redefining both physical and virtual space. With the Google offices in Sao Paulo as his next venture, it seems for Requena the sky is the limit.” (FvF)

02. Bozella gets helping hand from Hopkins

“Dewey Bozella’s story is an amazing one that certainly could be made into a movie.

If the man’s life ever does become the subject of a film, the outcome of his professional boxing debut won’t be a proper ending. The movie should end with the mere act of him stepping into the ring to fulfill the most unlikely of boxing careers.

Bozella’s well-chronicled journey has been incredible. He is 52 and set for his first pro fight — and only one, because he wants only one — on Saturday night at the Staples Center in Los Angeles on the Bernard Hopkins-Chad Dawson undercard. Oh, and there’s also this: Bozella served 26 years in prison — half of his life — for a murder he didn’t commit and was released in 2009 after witnesses against him recanted their stories.” (ESPN)

03. 20 Years On: A Tribe Called Quest’s The Low End Theory Revisited

“There’s a wonderful moment in Beats, Rhymes and Life: The Travels of A Tribe Called Quest, Michael Rapaport’s fascinating new documentary about A Tribe Called Quest. Jive records CEO Barry Weiss recalls the label’s internal reaction when staff first heard the group’s second LP, The Low End Theory. “It was very different to the first album,” Weiss tells Rapaport. “It wasn’t as ‘left’ in some ways, and we were concerned that maybe it was gonna miss the mark – that maybe they were trying to go too commercial, that it didn’t have the artistic integrity that [the debut] People’s Instinctive Travels [In the Paths of Rhythm] did. Um… and we were fuckin’ completely wrong.” (The Quietus)

04. Confidences

“If you are a writer with any presence on the Internet, even a very obscure one, you often get e-mails from strangers. Sometimes these strangers are quite eccentric, like the guy who once sent me a short story about men who were enslaved for breeding purposes and fed dog food. So I didn’t give much thought to a cryptic e-mail I got in the summer of 2009 from a person named Innocente Fontana.” (The Paris Review)

Shockingly, it was not a very difficult decision to share this photo shoot with Selectism favorite Paz de la Huerta for FLAUNT Magazine. How could we not share these beautiful images of Ms. la Huerta being “uncaged and sexy” in an almost agressive tone. Unapologetically, we embrace the beauty that is the female form. As FLAUNT mentions, “the performer will continue to aggressively reveal who she truly is—whether it’s to the humdrum media’s liking or not.” God bless.

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Monitaly gets major love from writers. Rightfully so it would seem. This plaid wool mackinaw is a great example as to why. It brings just a slight toch of modernity to a coat that you would have likely five years ago passed on as being too much like your gramp’s garb. Today, it is a fresh look made more unique by big details throughout. If you need it, Coggles has it.

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Something a bit “thron-y” about the hair on this model for the new Wood Wood Autumn Winter 2011. He’s doing his thing and we applaud that. More importantly the collection of goods from the Danish label stresses the casualness of living. Nothing to overdone here except for those locks.

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A little fun for all as we come closer to Halloween. Check these sugar cubes in the shape of skulls we discovered on etsy. Use them to scare the pants off your coffee or guests sometime soon. Packaged simply and priced at $2 bucks a pop.

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Seavee’s low top sneaker, above, was inspired by the standard, generic trainer worn on base during the 60’s at Camp Irwin, an Armored Combat Training Area located in the Mojave Desert in San Bernardino County. The upper is made from soft nylon twill with antique nickel on the eyelets. Awfully simple and ready to wear. Find them online.

This new forthcoming book on Rizzoli opened our eyes.

Bicycle Quartely, editor, Jan Heine, and photographer, Jean-Pierre Pradères, deliver, The Competition Bicycle, a new book that sets out to document the history of bicycles for racing. The book “features iconic bicycles that played an important role in the history of the sport, from the bicycle that sent Eddy Merckx over the finish line in his last world championship win, to those of tandem teams who tackled the hour record, motor-paced track racers that exceeded 80 mph on the wooden boards, to California’s mountain-bike pioneers.” We have not seen a preview of the internal pages, but we’ll be sure to share them when they arrive. We have some time on this one; it ships in February of 2012. Pre-order from Amazon

A classic rocker look with the Johan Lindeberg updated feel from BLK DNM. It is finished in camel leather and features reinforced elbows, classic shoulder vents and enough silver hardware to keep those vampires aware – maybe not. The quilted internal liner keeps it comfortable on the inside. Find it at BLK DNM.

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“During the Karl Lagerfeld Pirelli calendar launch in Moscow, Renato Montagner, Creative Director of Pirelli P Zero, commissioned artist Scott Campbell to create two signature projects. To engrave a Pirelli tire and to design a special edition P Zero bike jacket by Dainese. In the summer of 2011, Campbell began working on these pieces in his Brooklyn studio in New York.”