“The brown belt and shoes bring an Italian refinement to the ensemble…”
Luigi “Geno” Auriemma is WWD’s Man of the Week.
We know that we have been reboot-heavy in these parts as of late. We are drawing a line here.
Let there be no confusion. M magazine virulently opposes any efforts to reboot, remake, recut or generally tamper in any way with the legacy of the 1991 film “Point Break.” It is a perfect movie.
Via The Playlist.
“At the 11th hour, an 11th guy arrived and climbed into bed with another of the boys, ready to be bound. Browne seemed satisfied. ‘A little more provocation,’ he shrugged.”
More Gatsby
We lost this new trailer amid yesterday’s Gatsby fashion madness. It’s bit of a fuller picture than previous looks. Jay-Z! Lana Del Rey! Pink suits! Beautiful shirts! Green lights! Maybe even some boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past somewhere in there…
Read Jim Windolf’s interview with spring cover star Tobey Maguire here.
“The made-to-measure tuxedo does the job…”
WWD’s Man of the Week is Peter Dinklage.
Throwback Thursday: Threats of nuclear annihilation back in the news cycle edition.
Commander Joseph P. Crociata covered M’s February 1984 issue.
Brooks Brothers sent over some archival miscellany for our Gatsby story. Clothes for Lawn Tennis, etc.
Reimagining Gatsby
For M’s spring issue, WWD executive editor Bridget Foley wrote about Catherine Martin, who exulted in designing those beautiful shirts and that pink suit, as she and her husband, director Baz Luhrmann, rebooted “The Great Gatsby” for the 3D age.
“Moved to tears.” Many of us invoke the phrase; some actually mean it. We might tear up at witnessing true nobility of action, nature’s grandeur, or the beauty of a piece of art.
Daisy Buchanan wept over shirts. Shirts of sheer linen and thick silk and fine flannel, which lost their folds as they fell and covered the table in many-colored disarray…shirts with stripes and scrolls and plaids in coral and apple-green and lavender and faint orange, and monograms of Indian blue.
In one short, famous scene, F. Scott Fitzgerald telegraphs the intense power of fashion: The ability of clothes to reveal who we are either by accident of birth and other unavoidable circumstance or who we aspire to be by active pursuit. In extreme cases clothes may even suggest quality of character or depth of soul. Particularly in period fiction exploring social mores, a character’s style often reflects the core of his or her substance.
“I don’t know [who he’s wearing],” she offered. “Whatever it is, it sure looks nice on him.”
The many varied looks of Ryan Gosling at the New York premiere of “The Place Beyond the Pines.”
Photos by Steve Eichner for WWD.
“Make cute shit.”
Throwback Thursday: Record high close edition.
Lewis T. Preston, then president of J. P. Morgan & Company and later World Bank head, covered M’s June 1984 issue.
