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Postcard from Palm Springs

Picture perfect does exist. Click to see more from my month in the desert.

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An Eighties Moment

Living at the intersection of the Bowery and the Lower East Side is pretty interesting (not just because it’s Chinatown). I’ve quickly become an obsessive dumpling connoisseur (it’s all about Prosperity Dumpling FYI). More importantly I’m noticing that the local L.E.S kids could be stuck in an Eighties vortex – and that I might be into it.    …

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Mr Essentialist’s Shady Beards

The good people over at Shave Your Style recently asked me to share my thoughts (yes – sometimes I have some) on beards and sunglasses. After much investigation (involving varying degrees of mass interrogation and countless visits to Sunglass Hut) I have conjured-up a fail-safe and fool-proof system to help you flawlessly match facial hair to frame. That’s …

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Miansai’s Moment

Let me level with you real quick: I’m totally the person that whips out an iPhone to add four plus seven. I like to think it’s because I’m into accuracy, but truthfully I’m awful at maths (a revelation that I’m still coming to terms with). Perhaps my lack of anything remotely mathematical is the reason …

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Craving Camouflage

I don’t usually have an addictive personality – I promise. But sometimes you just find yourself on a bender, you know? I mean it could be worse. It could be all about obsessively collecting stuff until you end-up on an episode of Hoarders (actually that sounds sorta fun, kinda).  Well this particular fixation is camouflage. …

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An American (Psycho) Routine:

Alright, I’ll be the first to admit it – I’m a slave to my grooming routine. And yes there is method to my moisturizing madness, sub-arctic eye spooning sessions (!) and bizarre application techniques. But honestly after all is said (and done) I just feel great. So in light of that revelation I thought we …

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Mr Essentialist ♥’s Louis Vuitton FW/13

Everything was undeniably animalistic (a touch ‘RAWR’ perhaps) at Louis Vuitton‘s FW13 presentation in Paris last week. From perfectly understated gray leopard-print overcoats to full-throttle leopard lapels – let’s just say the beast has been let loose…on the Matterhorn.  I love this collection, not only because it is Louis Vuitton (although admittedly that usually is reason enough), …

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