Tag: clothing

  • Balmain: From French Refinement to Global Glitz

    This article is the second in our presentations about Parisian couture houses active today and how they came into being. Pierre Balmain, founder, 1914-1982 Balmain was born in the town of Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne, in the Savoy region of France.  His father sold textiles wholesale and his mother ran a fashion boutique. Despite his interest in fashion,…

  • Modern as a Menswear Mag

    New publication ventures ebb and flow.  The last few years the trickle became a mighty river, and these are marketed mostly towards young, adventurous male consumers.  We have been able, luckily, to subscribe to many of these, so we are giving them this cheery little introduction. This is an unprecedented amount of menswear titles to…

  • Magazine of the Week

    Hi, everyone! So it’s really a store catalog, but it’s a serial and we have ’em. J. Peterman is one of the many store catalogs that we get regularly.  (Yeah, I know this isn’t the cover of the current one, but it has a cooler holiday image than the current one.) Because this company depends…