Notes: Outfitting a First-Time Hiker

Understanding the value of technical clothing and embracing its style

I heard the rip before I knew what it meant exactly. I felt a sensation as well. We all know that strange, infrequent out-of-body experience: a tear taking place in our clothes, with seam tearing from seam. The incident occurred mid-hike, while I was wearing houndstooth shorts I had custom-made in Shanghai almost a decade earlier. The rip extended one inch just below the fly …

Pride Style 2017

Wear your true colors on your sleeves and just about everywhere else, while supporting important organizations

Visibility represents a primary component to Pride Month, the LGBTQ+ community’s rolling series of celebrations, talks, parades and activist events across the nation. As members of this diverse, beautiful body of individuals stand forward with strength and defy suppression and ignorance, apparel becomes more than a fashion statement, it’s a political one. It’s a unifier, a group announcement, and a bold statement of togetherness. The …

Le Bon Marché Debuts 24 Sèvres

Finally, there's a chic e-commerce destination for the historic Parisian retailer

Anyone who sets foot into Le Bon Marché, in the 7th arrondissement of Paris, understands the grandeur of historic department stores. For 160 years, visitors have passed through its doors—indulging or simply admiring. It’s more than a hub of consumerism, but an address—24 rue de Sèvres, in fact—to appreciate craft. Today, LVMH (the luxury group that holds Le Bon Marché) has taken the destination’s chic …