Needled: Tattoo Shoe

Needled recently found J. Shoes' leather slip-on with designs by tattoo artists that are hand-etched into the shoes and then burnished with oils and tattoo inks. Driving moccasins for the rockstar set?

Tropolism: Hidden City Contest Ends

Submissions for the Your Hidden City project end today at 5pm Eastern Standard Time. Click here to see all the entries. The contest was expected to be a little stream: it turned into a deluge. With close to 1,000 entries, we have our work cut out for us.

Refinery29: Something Old, Something New

Sitting above Freemans, the quasi-secret restaurant well-known for its back-alley access and collection of antlers, Freemans Sporting Club is restaurant owner Taavo Somer's other passions: a made-to-measure suit showroom that is helping to revive the bespoke tailoring of yesteryear. A punk rocker at heart, Somer started the appointment only business out of a desire to wear something more subversive than the common vintage t-shirt and …