L-R: Romain Bernardie James, Antoine Floch, Olivier Migda. (Photography: Mathieu Missiaen)

A new tradeshow hits Paris and New York this year in the form of MAN. Looking to bring something different to a crowded market and working on the basis of Quality before Quantity, a select line-up of brands includes Bleu de Chauffe, Kitsuné Tee, Steve Mono, Jojo Messenger and Fred Perry Laurel Wreath. A resident of the French capital, heading up the team is Antoine Floch who takes time out to tell us a little about his new venture, the Paris menswear scene and working with creative agency Les Imaginers.

Read the interview at the click.

We spent a few moments with Left Field’s Christian McCann recently to get some insight on the designers choice in choons and living. For those not familiar with Left Field, they’re a small operation producing fine work and casual garments for men. Almost all of their wears are made in N.Y. – they keep it tight.

We bounce around from musical influences to the plain strange.

Read our quick chat with Left Field’s Christian McCann after the click.

More looks after the click.

Dan Mitchell of Oki-Ni interviews Taichi Fujimatsu from Master-Piece (translation by Jonny Nash).

Dan: As you  know, we are big fans of Master-Piece and are really happy to be stocking the brand.  It’s been a while since we last met – about a year if I remember correctly. I guess you have been pretty busy in the last 12 months?

Fujimatsu-san: Yes, I’ve been pretty busy – spending my time working on designing our new collection, and sourcing new fabrics.

Sure – one thing that really stands out about Master-Piece for me is the great colour palettes mixed with a real nice range of multi-fabrics and materials. Are all your fabrics sourced from Japan?

Yes, all fabrics and materials are sourced from Japan.　We take our inspiration from everything around us, across all media and genres… our products are pretty much born from this.

Read on for more of the interview.

It’s currently Antiques Week in Nashville, Tennessee.

While we know that won’t drive many readers to Music City, it was enough for us to make the home of the Titans subject of our “A Weekend at Home” series. In this, the second, installment, Brandon Capps shares his favorite dinning, drinking, and shopping haunts. Included is the Country Music Hall of Fame (above) and some far less touristy spots.

Check out Capps’ full selections here.

Studying American decorative arts as a graduate student introduced me to the wonderful world of archives. In that sphere, inventory records and account books reveal a wealth of information about pricing structures and client bases. Fashion, too, provides a similar opportunity to dig into company histories through archival records. The surge of heritage based lines opening the potential of proper historic digging in creating new products.

Chris Olberding has the enviable position of working with the Gitman archives. Not surprisingly, this material forms the basis for Gitman Vintage. Given my interests, it should also not surprise that I wanted to pick Olberding’s brain about the riches of Gitman. What follows is a discussion about how the archive informs his work and inspires his own interest in the garment trade.

We’ve been fans of Our Legacy for some time. Their collections flow nicely from one piece to the next, offering a contemporary take on traditional looks, cuts, and garments. From footwear through to ties, they provide comprehensive male furnishings that manage to strike the familiar while not falling to the generic. In an effort to learn a bit more, we caught up with the guys from Sweden to discuss their vision of menswear.

Head to the jump to read our Q&A and to see looks from Our Legacy’s Spring/Summer 2010 offerings and current line.