Denim Dudes: A Book About Men and Their Jeans

Over 80 denim heads share insight into the 20th century's most important fabric through an equal number of unique lenses

At any given time, approximately 50% of the global population is wearing a pair of jeans—at least, so says Amy Leverton, a leading denim expert and author of “Denim Dudes,” a new photography-based book documenting over 80 men and their denim. While traveling the world many times over on assignment for her gig as Director of Denim and Youth Culture at trend forecasting company WGSN, …

Ideas On Paper

The Nottingham magazine shop shares its six favorite reads

by Ian Sanders Alex Smith started his career working for big London retailers like Harrods, Harvey Nichols and Selfridges, yet his ambition was always to open his own shop. In March 2014, he did just that. It feels a world away from London’s fashionable department stores: his shop, Ideas on Paper, resides upstairs in a cluster of old buildings that make up Cobden Chambers in …

Reproducing Scholten & Baijings Book

A colorful look at the Dutch design studio's past 14 years of work in their first monograph

In 2000, Dutch designers Stefan Scholten and Carole Baijings set out to design functional products, exclusively collaborate with the world’s best brands and professionals and to find a balance between industrially produced series and experimental projects. Looking back on what the two have accomplished through their design studio Scholten & Baijings, it is evident they’ve succeeded in such a mission. The Amsterdam-based duo have established …