SENSE Magazine recently published the upcoming Junya Watanabe COMME des GARCONS MAN Spring/Summer 2011 photo lookbook to showcase what the iconic brand has in store this upcoming season. The new collection is called “Blue Lines” and features plenty visual pieces with a touch of nautical influences. The new collection includes everything you’ll need this season from rain jackets to blazers to dress pants.
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One of the great equalizers, almost no accessory is as varied and as universal as the man’s wallet. Everybody from the poorest pauper to the wealthiest industrialist owns a wallet. The wallet itself is as old as civilization. Once man created currency, he needed a way to hold it. So, the first simple sack wallets were created. People would use them to hold coins and other essentials, and as the mankind changed, the wallet changed as well.Today, the choices available are varied from the classic American billfold to the more cosmopolitan travel wallet, and the simple money clip. To help you decide just which wallet is most suited to your needs and lifestyle, EveryGuyed has put together this list, containing the five wallet styles that all men need to familiarize themselves with.
The Billfold
The classic wallet, this form is the one most people are most familiar with. Usually made of leather, and folded two or three times to fit into a back pocket, the modern billfold wallet emerged in the late 1950s. As credit cards gained popularity, wallets began to carry card slots, and the form that people are most familiar with today emerged.With few changes to the design over the last 50 years, the billfold is the most functional, most practical everyday wallet available. For those of you who can’t decide, for those of you who don’t need a wallet to do anything fancy, the billfold is a great, practical choice with no real drawbacks.
The Breast Wallet
The billfold’s taller friend, the breast wallet is designed to store banknotes without folding. Too large to be carried in pants, this wallet is usually kept inside of your suits inside breast pocket, or inside a briefcase or bag.Though this wallet creates an undeniable sense of class when pulled out from the breast pocket of a crisp new Prada suit, it does come off as pretty dumb looking if you’re just grabbing it from your messenger bag at the grocery store. A risky choice that can have a big payoff, or blow up in your face, the breast wallet isn’t for the faint of heart. It’s a statement.
The Travel Wallet
A close cousin to the breast wallet, the travel wallet is a larger, fatter breast wallet, with space enough to hold some cash, some plastic, your passport, and your boarding pass. Too large to be kept in your pants, and sometimes even too large to be kept in your breast pocket, you usually stash this in your briefcase or some other carry-on bag that’s kept close at hand.Infinitely useful for travel, if you find yourself in the air more than on the ground, the travel wallet is going to save you time and grief. Who can afford to search and search for a boarding pass every check-in?
The Zip Wallet
Ostensibly just another derivative of the billfold, the zip wallet is a choice that’s gaining popularity among designers and fashionistas. A brilliant alternative to the billfold that’s just as functional and portable as it is stylish; the zip wallet comes with the disadvantage of coming off as somewhat trendy. Though it works for a twenty-something reaching for this in a dive bar in Brooklyn, a forty year old in a hotel lobby just looks pathetic; great if you can carry it off, and an absolute train-wreck if you can’t.The Money Clip
If you want to think of a wallet in terms of a piece of leather you put your money and credit cards inside of, the money clip doesn’t really count. But this simple bit of metal bent and twisted to hold your banknotes is an enduring design that never really goes out of style. While the clip carries an effortless sense of prosperity, the clip does carry one glaring problem.Of course, we’re talking about the lack of any storage space. No room for IDs, no room for credit cards, no room for anything, the money clip is a great front-pocket choice, but is best used in combination with another wallet for practicality’s sake. Just the same, it’s a great accessory that should be in every man’s arsenal.
Notes
- The British pound is 8.5 cm tall, the Japanese yen is 7.7 cm tall, and the American dollar is 6.6 cm tall. You might need to look into buying a new wallet when traveling overseas.
- Though some wallets contain compartments for coins, they can rapidly turn a fairly thin wallet into a bulky monstrosity, and a savvy EveryGuyed reader into that idiot who’s holding up the rest of the line while looking for coins.
- When choosing a wallet, remember that all leather on your body should compliment each other. Brown shoes dictate a brown wallet, and black shoes dictate a black wallet. And Crocs dictate a fanny pack.
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Author
Xiaoli Li is a managing editor at EveryGuyed and the channel editor of DefinitiveTouch, FrameGeek, Suitored, TheCarry, and TheShoeBuff.
Original and Modern Armchair Inspired by the Art of Origami
Oru Chair was designed by architect and designer Ramón Esteve for company Joquer. This unusual chair displays a highly contemporary look and has an uncommon inspiration source: the art of Origami. Its shape is truly remarkable and is based on a series of asymmetrical geometric shapes which subtly contribute to an unmistakable exterior design, as described by Daily Icon. The technical specifications reveal that the chair features wooden frame padded on the exterior with stress-resistant polyurethane and an interior made of several densities of foam. Various color finishes are available, but right now the manufactures are only showcasing these two vivid models. The chair also comes with an ottoman, which has the ability of bringing a sensible increase in the user’s comfort. How do you appreciate the design of these Origami armchairs?
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These are really cool. I’m glad to see maybe there’s a future in orgami! My son does it all the time.
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Posted January 26, 2011 at 4:46 pm | PermalinkNow THIS is an amazing chair!
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Nike gets Kobe to unleash his black mamba
By Brian Morrissey on Jan 25 2011 Tweet
Kobe Bryant got lots of snickers when he told the world that his alter ego is the black mamba, a fierce serpent known for its uncanny ability to strike at any moment with pinpoint accuracy. Now, Nike's getting on board with a new "Black Mamba" campaign, including an eight-minute online video coming in February co-starring Bruce Willis and directed by Robert Rodriguez, the man who brought the world Spy Kids. There's a social twist to the site, created by R/GA. The idea is, if enough people chatter about Kobe on Twitter (determined by an algorithm that searches for his name and other terms like speed, champion, tenacity, heart, etc.), it triggers a "Mamba Moment" that changes the appearance of the site and causes some new Kobe videos to be posted. The threshold to start is 1,500 tweets per hour, but that may increase given the amount of global chatter the agency team is seeing. Such Mamba Moments last for six hours. (If they persist, you should probably call you doctor.) Nike is sweetening the pot by offering visitors a chance to win the new Nike Zoom Kobe VI sneaker by tweeting #mambamoment. We'll see if this takes off. It's always hard for brands to create these kind of groundswells because, well, they're pretty artificial. Then again, Kobe giving himself a nickname is pretty artificial, too.
We always thought that Dee & Ricky had their work cut out for them! This awesome sculpture was created by Nathan Sawaya who’s Lego work we’ve featured on our blog in the past.
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adidas is dropping a back catalog favorite again. The adidas Crazy 8 is set to return in a handful of colorways, including the original Black/White. While Kobe’s name is no longer officially attached to the shoe, the memories of him playing in it still are.
Expected to release this spring. More info to come as it develops.
Releated: adidas Crazy 8 Set To Return
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We're jealous of Bill Moggridge's social network...which is a rather meta way of expressing that his new book "Designing Media", about the divide between traditional and virtual media, includes interviews with an amazingly diverse range of fascinating, talented and powerful people. True to the occasionally awkward mashup that is print media in the digital age, Moggridge's book includes an additional DVD of the actual interviews themselves. We confess that after reading every word of the rather gargantuan book, we only accessed the accompanying DVD to watch the physicality and body language of the most interesting interviewees (e.g. Zuckerberg pre-Fincher). That said, we suppose that the pick and choose hypertext way of gathering information from the feed is something Moggridge (and most of the interviewees) would find perfectly appropriate. Indeed, the interviews are available here. I've linked to Chris Anderson's video in particular, given that his last book advocated giving content away for free.
The interviews in "Designing Media" are organized in sections under headings like: the enduring nature of the printed word, crowdsourcing, social media, the media isn't the message, the value of content, and how digital media encourages the proliferation of the truth. Powerful stuff. Moggridge, a founder of IDEO, now manages the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum and is, in his own words, "a spokesperson for design." Moggridge provides thoughtful editorial oversight between each of the interviews. When you bounce from an interview with DJ Spooky to Jimmy Wales, a little context is profoundly helpful, and Moggridge provides seamless segues. Under Moggridge's watch, "Designing Media" becomes more than a set of interviews. By the final comments in the last interview, the thrust of its underlying thesis that "the printed word will not disappear" simply serves as a valedictory to a thesis that the reader has already discovered for themselves. Moggrdige assures us that, "while digital media is directly responsible for falling revenues in music, film and the printed word, individuals and companies will find ways to carve niches in the new digital domain."
The book is beautifully designed, and easy to read. Our only quibble would be that at the beginning of the book, Moggridge lays out that the blue text represents his voice. In the interview format, author oversight/paraphrasing and indented direct quotations are represented in black. Although the book reads seamlessly and it's fairly obvious who wrote what, since the author specifically called out the blue sections as his own voice, it seems odd to see his words in black.
Amazingly, however, it doesn't really matter who's writing. It's all interesting. Nearly every one of the interviewees (visible on the cover page) has something to say and so does Moggridge. There's simply too much book to encapsulate in a short review, so as befits a book of interviews and quotations, we're content to close with Moggridge's words: "Every day more and more people gain access to the tools for capturing, editing, designing, and disseminating information, so that the truth is harder to hide and told more often....I'm optimistic that the democratization of media design and production will turn out to enhance the truth and on balance be good for us all."
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