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Attire Club World

Links à la Mode 81

Dear Attire Club elegantologists, We have some wonderful news! This week we have been featured on Independent Fashion Bloggers’ list “Links à la Mode” for the 81st time!     For those of you who don’t know, the list features the best 20 articles on fashion chosen from a very big selection. We’re always happy to be on their […]

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Accessories Watches

3 Reasons a Watch with a Brand History is Worth It

In the fashion world, certain brands, especially those of luxury goods such as Swiss watches, place their founding year under their name on their label. This is something that does not happen for no reason, as a watch offered by a label with a long history can be very different than from a newer brand. […]

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In Their Own Words Interviews and Features

In His Own Words: Designer Juan Carlos Gordillo

Juan Carlos Gordillo is a Guatemalan fashion designer for whom creativity and an honest aesthetic are the key elements he considers when he is imagining his eclectic designs. An introspective nature, Juan Carlos always looks both inside and outside when designing a garment. His career has been an uphill climb: it wasn’t easy to become […]

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Fashion World

The Essential Fashion Alphabet (B)

The fashion world has a language of its own. Fashion people have a whole jargon and phraseology that’s completely unique to the industry.  If you are a fashion rookie or want to take a deeper dive in the fashion world, there are certain words or phrases that are useful and come in handy any time. […]

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Attire Club World

Links à la Mode 80

Dear Attire Club elegantologists, We have some wonderful news! This week we have been featured on Independent Fashion Bloggers’ list “Links à la Mode” for the 80th time! What a landmark!     For those of you who don’t know, the list featuresthe best 20 articles on fashion chosen from a very big selection. We’re always happy to be […]

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Fashion History Hair Metafashion

45 Facts about Hair

Hair. Head hair, body hair, fake hair. Hair has a lot of personality and everyone has a certain relation to it. But how much do you actually know about human hair? We have put together a list of 45 facts about hair that will give you more insight into this very interesting part of human […]

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Fashion World

The Comme des Garçons Homme Plus Spring-Summer 2016 Collection in Review

The Comme des Garçons collections are always known for their true originality. With an aesthetic that is almost always outside the box, the label always keeps the fashion world on their toes to see their latest collection. Designer Rei Kawakubo’s collection for Comme des Garçons Homme Plus for the spring-summer 2016 season delivered a breath […]

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Fashion History Fashion World

Timeless and Trendy? A Look at Men’s 1990s Fashions.

Crazy, colorful, and grungy. When we think of the fashions of the 1990s, many people imagine this period as a time of strange trends such as fanny packs, one-open-shoulder overalls and bowling-inspired shirts that reflected this raging decade. And, while it is true that the aesthetic of the 1990s trends was very different than the […]

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Fashion Advice

The 2015 Men’s Halloween Style Guide (B)

Halloween is a holiday that is no longer an Irish-American-Canadian festival, but an increasingly International holiday. Around the world, more and more people celebrate Halloween with parties and get-togethers to celebrate… well, what they celebrate is a whole different story (the history behind Halloween is so complex and complicated that it would take too much […]

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Basic Style Guides

6 Fashion Items that Never Go Out of Style (B)

With so many trends out there, it can be a little challenging sometimes to find items that you can be sure you will be able to rely on next year, without them going out of style or without simply looking dated. This is why we have put together a list of 6 items that won’t […]

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Fashion Advice Ties

3 Alternative Ways to Wear a Tie (B)

It is said that an object is what the person who makes use of it makes it to be – and that the initial purpose has almost no value in this process. For example, if you own a chair, but use it as a table, then the object is a table. Even though this concept […]

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Fashion Advice

The Guide to Wearing Paisley (B)

Paisley is one of the most known designs in fashion and style. The droplet-shaped vegetable motif has an Indian and Persian origin and is originally called buta or boteh. The pattern became well-known in the Western world in the 18th and 19th century, following imports of post-Mughal variations  of the design mostly from India’s Kashmir […]