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The DaVinci Collection, Designed by Charlie Sheen

Filed under: Apparel, Men's Style, Celebrity Design

For every celebrity who closes down a clothing line, there's one just starting up. Charlie Sheen is the next celebrity to launch a line, after Scott Weiland, that is. Sheen's line of short-sleeved, button-up shirts, dubbed Da Vinci Collection by Charlie Sheen, aims to emulate retro casual shirts inspired by 1950s rockabilly culture. The shirts feature agoya shell buttons, retro patterns and contrasting color combos. They're set to go on sale in June at GlobalRebels.com. Sheen hopes to eventually sell them in major department stores as well. $59 - $79

Check out the New York Daily News's gallery of celebrities who wear their own lines: "Look! I wear my designs, too!"

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The Classicist: The Private Luxury of Loro Piana

by Jared Paul Stern (RSS feed) —

Filed under: Apparel, Men's Style, The Classicist

If I had the means I could easily wear nothing but Loro Piana for the rest of my life. They make the most comfortable, classic, stylish and subtly luxurious clothes I've ever had the pleasure of putting on. World-famous for their cashmere, the 200-year-old Italian company, which began as a textile merchant, has also branched out into other areas (including accessories and women's clothing) in more recent years with equal success.

Loro Piana's motto has it that true luxury is "knowing, not showing," i.e. dressing for yourself, not to impress others. It's "an inner satisfaction that comes from an aesthetic, intellectual, tactile pleasure, stemming from tradition, research and genuine quality." What could be better than that?

Their latest innovation is called Baby Cashmere®. To make this fabric the company first had to spend several years convincing Mongolian and Chinese breeders to comb the fine underfleece of the Hyrcus goat kid when it is 3-12 months old. Each combing yields no more than 30 grams of the rare, precious and incredibly soft fibre. Baby Cashmere crops up in Loro Piana's luxe Fall/Winter 2008 collection, which is about to hit stores; as usual we want it all.

We love the knitted stretch cashmere Davenport jacket pictured here, which like a lot of their designs calls to mind a cross between Cary Grant and Steve McQueen. And also like many of their best designs it captures that ineffable quality of effortless elegance the Italians call sprezzatura. This is the kind of thing you wear for a drive to your villa on Lake Como in your Maserati Gran Turismo. Even better, merely putting on this jacket for a trip to the liquor store can make you feel like you're driving to your villa in a Maserati, which is the real test of its worth (The jacket retails for $3,995).

Gallery: Loro Piana Luxe

Maine cashmere cardigan and Baby Cashmere turtleneck.

Double face baby cashmere Vassar cape from Women's Fall/Winter '08.

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Billy Reid Spring 2006

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For a southern gentleman, certain aspects of modern fashion are no-no's. For example, a true southern gentleman should never wear Versace. It's just not done. Among the designers that call the south home is Billy Reid. With stores in Dallas, Houston, and Florence, Alabama, Billy creates designs that are on the cutting edge of fashion, but yet retain a certain dignity required of old guard southern gentlemen. His "broken-in luxury" is a far cry from the sleek racks of Armani and Gucci, but have a great feel and timelessness that transcends Haute Couture. His stores feature beadboard walls and wide pine plank floors, but don't let the down home style fool you, the shelves are filled with handmade shoes and cashmere sweaters. His 2006 spring collection is filled with hand made classics that go easily from cotillion to Cumberland island. The south may not appeal to certain segments of the jet set, but we have our own set of fashion rules and our own designers that keep us on the fashion straight and narrow.

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