[Kerrigan]

Does anyone know what some of the best men's fashion magazines/journals are? I've just started reading the New York Times Men's Fashion mag, which is quite good, but I'd like to move up a notch if you will. Does anyone know of any other well-reputed fashion mags, preferably ones from Italy?

I'm a novice at fashion "theory" but it's interesting and I want to expose myself to it more.

[Cipher13]

Ah, "fashion". The concept of making people look as ****ing stupid as possible, in front of lots of cameras.

Gotta appreciate that.

[imitchellg5]

Motor Trend, Car and Driver, Automobile Magazine, to name a few.

[marden]

International Male?

International Male



Adventures of an International Male : In the Magazine : Radar Magazine

[Kerrigan]

I hate to pull a Salty (eww haha) but this thread is now closed to straight people.

And all I wanted was a good mag to see the latest trends in sunglasses and jeans (since I'm getting especially tired of those 'look-at-me-I'm-a-Diva' aviators that straight guys and big queens are wearing everywhere)

[marden]

Men's Fashion, Men's Clothing, Gear, GQ and Details on men.style.com

Men's Flair - No-nonsense Fashion and Style Magazine for Men

[marden]

OK, here is what looks to be a comprehensive list of fashion magazines for ALL genders and preferences.

Take your pick.

Fashion Publications

[Jawbone54]

EDIT: Wound up being dumber than I thought.

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This thread is sooooo metrosexual!

[ghporter]

Straight intrusion here, but every fashion magazine I've ever seen has been 99% advertising (expensive, BAD advertising) and <1% content. Columnists gush about which buttons the designer uses and skip the whole matter of how the clothes fit or wear. "Articles" tend to be fanboy or rants, none of which has any useful content either. It's like "how many glossy pages can we fill with nonsense?"

In women's fashions, you can tell the designers that don't like women at all (and I mean as a group, not as a sexual preference) by just how stupid and damaging their "designs" are. I can't help but think that most women's shoe designers must really hate women badly. In men's fashions, designers are usually less obviously androphobic, but they still ignore true style for glitz.

Fashion is always ephemeral, while style is enduring. Connery as Bond had STYLE-gallons of it. It's why Brooks Brothers still sells suits, and why those suits look basically the same as suits they sold 40 years ago. Style trumps fashion. I wear as much "classically styled" dress clothes as I can and shun "fashionable" clothes because of this.

Oh, and you don't have to be either gay or metro to like to look good.

[Sbtrfuge]

"Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months."

-- Oscar Wilde

[Kerrigan]

Um, I read fashion articles/look at adverts because I learn things that suit me (no pun intended). For instance, I learned where to order vintage-style tailored oxford shirts, or narrow ties, or a smart, fitted suede jacket. I don't live in London or Milan, so if I want to find high quality products with nice details, I often have to look long and hard. So what if I'm picky, I want stuff that looks good on me, and I'm willing to do the necessary work. If you have any qualms with fashion in general, then just stay out of this thread.

As for Brooks, they have nice suits but they are certainly not the nicest you can find. They pale in comparison to what you can get on Savile Row, but people are brand whores so they hear Brooks and think that it is the best you can get. I have some of their oxfords, which are very nice, but I would rather hunt around and find something that suits my tastes more, rather than just cough up $150 for another shirt which looks like every other shirt.

[Sbtrfuge]

If that's what makes you feel worthwhile.... personally I don't need clothes and hairgel to feel confident and sure of myself.

[Kerrigan]

Does quoting things make you feel better about your lack of a proper undergraduate education? Does pathologizing other people help you depathologize yourself? Do I need to sit here and tell you how worthless and empty your interests are, or do you already suspect it on a subconscious level?

Oddly the only person that "gets" my request is marden.

[Doofy]

Originally Posted by Kerrigan 

Oddly the only person that "gets" my request is marden.

That's not strictly true. I got it but didn't bother to post since I'm only really interested in what's under ladies' fashion. Esquire and GQ seem like likely candidates but then I'm sitting here in a pair of combats and kung-fu slippers, so what would I know?

[Kyle Dreaden]

I'm a very much straight male but I certainly do like to look my best. I read GQ as well as thesatorialist.com

I think it's silly to say you have to be gay to have good taste. I've seen plenty of gay men with horrible, tacky, nasty fashion sense. Quite the double standard.

I wear suits quite often, trying to recreate the mod lifestyle. My favorites are my black three button Paul Smith suit and my two button grey ralph lauren black label suit.

In my opinion, money should be put into shoes, suits, and a good watch. Oh, and jeans too. Then again, I'm Italian and the first thing I look at when I shake a guy's hand is his shoes. Good quality shoe says a lot, at least the way I've been raised.

[Dakar²]

Originally Posted by Kerrigan 

Oddly the only person that "gets" my request is marden.

There is a fifth dimension beyond that which is known to man. It is a dimension as vast as space and as timeless as infinity. It is the middle ground between light and shadow, between science and superstition, and it lies between the pit of man's fears and the summit of his knowledge. This is the dimension of imagination. It is an area which we call the Twilight Zone.