Boom or Bust, Wall Street Finds Designer Alan Flusser’s Stock Is Secure
0July 31, 2013 by Ville Raivio
Today’s link leads to People magazine’s virtual archives and an interview with Alan Flusser from 1988. Inside, the reader will find old Flus wearing a horizontal-striped shirt, discussing his work on the Wall Street film and something I haven’t seen on other interviews of Flusser: his ethnicity and conversion to Nichiren Shōshū. The saddeningly short text also lists some prices on accessories and bespoke suits from Alan Flusser Customs as well as the large heap of dollars the business accumulated. Highly recommended for all menswear buffs.
http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20098099,00.html
Category Arbiter Elegantiae, Links, Reading
Seki Nobuyoshi and the Wabi-sabi of Shoemaking
0July 30, 2013 by Ville Raivio
Category Cordwainers, Japanese Style, Videos
The Crown Prince’s Pants
0July 30, 2013 by Ville Raivio
‘The 5 September 1960 issue of Shūkan shinchō carried an article entitled “Your Imperial Highness, Your Pants Are Too Large”. An expert tailor, called on to judge the crown prince’s pants, ruled that they were indeed too large (was the title meant to suggest that the crown prince was getting too big for his britches?) This light treatment of the heir to the throne infuriated self-appointed defenders of the imperial house’s dignity. Decades later, far right commentators continued to cite this article as marking the onset of the decline of the imperial house’s dignity.’
~ Kenneth J. Ruoff in The people’s Emperior: Democracy and the Japanese Monarchy, 1945-1995
Category Japanese Style, Quotations
A Story of Shoes by Thom McAn
0July 29, 2013 by Ville Raivio
A silent-film documentary about American shoemaking in the 1930s, shot at Thom McAn’s factory and pepped by latter-day Space Age music.
Category Footwear, Videos, Vintage
Muhammad Ali
0July 29, 2013 by Ville Raivio
‘It isn’t the mountains ahead to climb that wear you out; it’s the pebble in your shoe.’
~ Muhammad Ali (or is it?)
Category Quotations
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