WHY YOU MAD?!

Snapshots Part XVI

Austin Ao-Xiong Wong (黃傲雄) — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 15:00:14 +0000

Thom Browne jacket, Brunello Cucinelli pocket square, Uniqlo +J shirt, Swaine Adeney Briggs bag

Hot Cider

Cafe Select

Shirt tucking is the new sagging

Air Sperm

Left to Right, Fairfax, Engineered Garments, J. Crew, Barneys, Brunello Cucinelli

Don't believe the hype

Need to use this more

is tropical- lies

fussnajj — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 02:53:08 +0000

Do It Yourself: Tiramisu

Austin Ao-Xiong Wong (黃傲雄) — Sun, 16 Oct 2011 15:00:34 +0000

A stroll on the Upper East Side was followed by a coffee and dessert break at Via Quadronno, a small Italian cafe. Below is Tiramisu di San dona (Venetian style) a unique “DIY” approach to traditional pre-mixed tiramisu. The dish came with several ladyfingers, a bowl of espresso and a cocoa mascarpone concoction.

DIY tiramisu > traditional tiramisu

Sometimes, we need to look a bit fancy…

(Paul Stuart Phineas Cole navy blue pinstripe suit, Addison combat boots, Uniqlo +J shirt, Brunello Cucinelli cashmere tie and wool pocket square, Thom Browne tie bar, Brioni socks, Timex for J. Crew watch, Ralph Lauren Purple Label sunglasses)

Photography by: Melanie M. Berger

Via Quadronno
25 E 73rd St (Madison ave.)
New York City, NY 10021-3521
(212) 650-9880
Hours: Sunday 10:30am–9pm;
Monday-Friday 8:30am–11pm;
Saturday 9:30am–11pm

Blue Gingham

Austin Ao-Xiong Wong (黃傲雄) — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 20:04:06 +0000

(Thom Browne jacket, sweater and tie bar, Sifr blue gingham shirt, J. Crew blue gingham pocket square, Paul Stuart Phineas Cole tweed pants, Crockett & Jones shoes, Ralph Lauren Purple Label sunglasses)

Brilliant Steez: Flat Heads with a Speckled sole

Austin Ao-Xiong Wong (黃傲雄) — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 16:55:07 +0000

A close friend and site contributor, Casey Fussner, has a single pair of mens jeans he wears almost daily. He has been rocking the same pair for three years, only washing them a handful of times. When he purchased the pair from Self Edge in San Francisco, they were at its rawest state. Stiff and cardboard-like, Casey at first had trouble putting the jeans on but after continuous wears they began to give and now are beautifully broken in fitting his body perfectly.

Casey’s jeans, from The Flat Head, are made from the Japanese selvage and would be classified as a middleweight denim (14.5 ounces). Casey chose a looser and more comfortable fit, the 3005, and has been able to produce some amazing natural fades and personalized “tarnish”.

The Flat Head is a Japanese denim company which only uses Japan’s coveted selvage denim to make their jeans. Selvage denim refers to the end pieces of the denim which have been sewn together at the outseam to create a clean finish. This type of denim is often woven on shuttle looms. Denim fabric woven from a shuttle loom is often very narrow from the continuous cross thread which lies horizontally in the bolt of fabric. These looms not only create narrower pieces of fabric but also take their time weaving the fabric together. This slow weave and continuous cross thread creates a much softer and durable piece of denim. Shuttle looms were first used in the 1950s by American denim manufactures such as Lee and Levi’s and were soon replaced as they could not keep up with the ever-growing denim market. Most of the looms were then shipped overseas and a majority of them can now be found in Japan were they have perfected the art of producing selvage denim.

(Sifr t-shirt, The Flat Head jeans and belt, Victorinox watch, bespoke white and yellow gold bracelets, Church’s custom grade boots)

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