Last night, Billy Reid took his usual southern gentleman elegance and added a fair dose of rugged sensibility. The collection included strong roped shoulders (a favorite here at Gilt MANual HQ), fermented leather jackets, patterned shawl collar dinner jackets and the invasion … read more →

In April of 1818, Henry Sands Brooks opened what would be the first iteration of the Brooks Brothers retail store. Brooks was driven by the following mantra: “To make and deal only in merchandise of the finest body, to sell … read more →

Sure, there’s room for rules when it comes to men’s style—seriously, please stop buttoning that bottom button on your sportcoat—but we’ve always believed that there’s room for levity as well. Case in point: two of the sales on Gilt MAN … read more →

Tyler speaks out about his vandalism arrest and time in jail. On the latter: “Jail is really cold, I had no socks on.” Grantland summarizes the year in television by considering shows in tandem. Our favorite pairing? Downton Abbey vs. … read more →

Missy Rayder’s NSFW “wardrobe malfunction” at the spring 2012 Michael Bastian show may have launched an onslaught of retweets, reblogs, and comments from the blogosphere, but a somewhat similar debacle in the Palazzo Pitti in Florence, 1967? That launched a … read more →

GQ pulled together an oral history of menswear blogging. And Vanity Fair commented on it. Mr. Chow shares his Beijing Chicken. Norway needs more butter. Hangin’ out with Matt Damon is a wicked pissah. Time‘s Person of the Year is… … read more →

Does the small dot in the middle of a sideways square really look like a bird’s eye? It’s up for debate. Regardless, that visual association is the reasoning behind the name for birdseye, a complicated weave that creates a series … read more →

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