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The Sartorial Travel Guide
An indispensable, informative, and portable insider’s companion to the most fashion-forward cities for well-dressed and worldly men. This essential travel guide distills a decade of style expert Simon Crompton’s experiences traveling the world to meet and advise the finest menswear producers and artisans—providing everything the modern man needs to know to travel in style and explaining what to buy and where to buy it. Offering insider knowledge on ten of the world’s most stylish cities, including Florence, New York, Stockholm, Paris, Tokyo, and Hong Kong, and detailing ten more cities full of emerging talents, each chapter contains listings of the finest shops and ateliers. In-depth...
The Suit
A beautifully tailored history of this fashion staple—at once a garment of tradition, power, and subversion. The Suit unpicks the story of this most familiar garment, from its emergence in western Europe at the end of the seventeenth century to today. Suit-wearing figures such as the Savile Row gentleman and the Wall Street businessman have long embodied ideas of tradition, masculinity, power, and respectability, but the suit has also been used to disrupt concepts of gender and conformity. Adopted and subverted by women, artists, musicians, and social revolutionaries through the decades—from dandies and Sapeurs to the Zoot Suit and Le Smoking—the suit is also a device for challenging the status quo. For all those interested in the history of menswear, this beautifully illustrated book offers new perspectives on this most mundane, and poetic, product of modern culture.
Obsessions: Tailoring
Here is insider advice for every gentleman who is ready to invest in tailored clothing. Armed with this exclusive knowledge, you can now be certain that your jacket sleeve has the correct number of buttons and your suit is appropriate for Ascot, Henley or an ambassadorial reception. As well as tips on the timeless rules of bespoke menswear, advice on how to select a tailor and the common pitfalls to avoid, Simon Crompton offers profiles of the world's finest tailors from Henry Poole and Anderson & Shepherd to Gieves & Hawkes and Oswald Boateng. Obsessions: Tailoring is the perfect fit for any well-appointed bookshelf.
Eating Well
Photographs and easy-to-read text introduce the major food groups and explain the nutritional contributions of each.
Ivy Style
A history of "Ivy Style" in menswear, tracing the origins and diffusion of this enduring and classic fashion
Tailoring
For the men and women who appreciate the finer things in life, The Le Snobs are your guides to the work of skilled artisans, culinary connoisseurs and inspired designers from around the world. Impeccably stylish and beautifully understated, these handbooks will appeal to anyone seeking perfection and, most importantly, ensure you always know more than everyone else. Witty, assured and informative, these books are the perfect foil for your passion for the finer things in life. Is there a sartorial obsessive in you waiting to get out? A modern day dapper Don Draper? Fond of telling people that strictly speaking, it's a coat, not a jacket? Then you need a guide to feed that obsession, to help y...
Best of British
Featuring hundreds of photographs, this lavishly illustrated guide to some of the most distinguished British brands takes a fascinating, behind-the-scenes look at their enduring success. Classic style and British manufacturing are both experiencing a boom in demand—driven by a desire among consumers for authentic, quality products. Britain is uniquely placed to benefit from this resurgence, given the number of heritage companies still producing at the top of their game. From the world-famous Barbour in South Shields in the north of England to John Lobb in London, many of these fine businesses remain in family ownership, protective of their traditions and justifiably proud of their products...
Savile Row
Here is the definitive story of Savile Row, the internationally renowned epicentre of gentlemen's style. Introduced by Tom Ford, it is a rich visual history of the street synonymous with elegance, sophistication and timeless attitudes. Including rare archival material and previously unpublished images, alongside specially commissioned photography and fashion shoots, this lavish celebration brings together the Row's tailors, the personalities, the dramas and private tales, the suits and their accoutrements, the fabrics and the cuts, as never before. An exclusive bonus section offers a complete resource for anyone wishing to have a suit made.
This Guy
This beautiful photographic collection is a celebration of modern menswear. In it, photographer Jamie Ferguson profiles men from the fashion industry, covering a range of ages, geographical locations and personal styles. Each of the men profiled works in menswear, but enjoys passions of his own. Tommaso Capozzoli (Sales Director) is also a rower who belongs to an exclusive club whose headquarters sit below the Ponte Vecchio in Florence; Hooman Majd is a world renowned Iranian-American journalist and author; Michael Hill is the founder and creative genius behind Drake's haberdashery in London, New York, Seoul and Tokyo, Simon Crompton is a keen cyclist, and Antonio Ciongoli a gifted skateboarder. This Guy captures not only their impeccable style from London, Paris, New York, Stockholm, Tokyo and Rome but also the lives that made them. Full of aspirational life stories, beautiful photography, and cutting-edge fashion, This Guy is the perfect luxury coffee-table book for anyone who appreciates the finer things in life.
All about Me
What do you do if you are in love with an emotional vampire? Can he actually control his behaviour? Why does he behave the way he does? Since the ancient Greeks told the story of Narcissus, we have recognised that some people are simply self-obsessed. But there is now evidence to suggest that narcissism is shaping our times, and most of all, our relationships. Today narcissism is a quality that is being continually reinforced by our celebrity-obsessed, high achievement, sell-yourself culture. In this original and compelling book, Crompton explores what this means for our relationships today, and is guaranteed to make you think about yourself and your partner in an entirely new light.
