Birchbox Man Anniversary Shipment

Celebrating a year of curated lifestyle and grooming products done right

Advertorial content: Birchbox Man heralds their one-year anniversary with another stellar package of curated goods. This month’s offerings include two CH favorites—Benjo’s colored shoelaces and Bread & Boxers boxer brief—in addition to Go 247 texture paste, Marvis classic toothpaste and Billy Jealousy energizing facial scrub. Needless to say, we were stoked to see a few familiar names while also discovering new brands—after all, that’s the …

Reclaim Bags by Sophie Postma

One young designer upcycling rubber inner tubes into a collection of classy accessories

Most people would balk at being given “waste materials and innovation” as a jumping off point, but 21-year-old Sophie Postma found inspiration instead. Her line of minimalist clutches, bags and iPad cases are handmade from discarded rubber inner-tube that is then lovingly resurrected to the highest specifications, in a similar approach as Freitag bags, which are cut from used truck tarps. The Reclaim Bags line …

Sourcing Vintage Textiles with Hickoree’s

We join the Brooklyn retailer at Sri, their supplier for ancient Japanese threads

Japanese textiles, and denim in particular, have been a long-standing obsession of mine—long-standing, but somewhat uneducated. With the goal of schooling myself on these beautiful and ancient materials, I recently joined Emil Corsillo and Mitch Frank of Hickoree’s on a buying trip. The destination was Sri, a private gallery owned by collector and dealer Stephen Szczepanek. Inside, we discovered overwhelming piles of indigo dating back …