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Hermes Mahogany & Leather Valet Stand

The famed French luxury goods house of Hermès has come out with the ultimate accessory for the world's best-dressed gentlemen -- a valet stand in solid mahogany, fine leather and brass with ebony detailing.

The luxe piece, designed to accommodate a full suit of gentleman's clothing and accessories, is a limited edition re-issue of a classic item created for Hermès in 1930 by famed French decorator and designer Paul Dupré-Lafon. The original was sold by Sotheby's at its Art Nouveau & Art Deco Design sale in Paris in 2007 for about $65,000.

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Astor & Black Provides a Custom Suit with every new Bentley

by Noah Joseph (RSS feed) —

Filed under: Apparel, Luxury Cars & Autos, Men's Style

With their immaculate attention to detail, unsurpassed presence and monstrously powerful engines, a fair few of us here at Luxist would need little excuse to sign on the dotted line for a new Bentley if given the opportunity. And by opportunity, of course, we mean the financial wherewithal that doesn't typically come with a career as a freelance writer. But for those who have the means, Bentley USA has teamed up with custom clothiers Astor & Black to sweeten the deal.

The fashionably informed may recognize the name Astor & Black for outfitting Esquire's "best dressed real man" Angel Ramos. The company provides bespoke suits starting at accessible prices but reaching prominently up-market with higher-end fabrics and options. It's from that range that Astor is providing every buyer of any new Bentley in the United States or Canada with a custom suit, shirt and handmade tie...each item made to measure according to the customer's specifications, not unlike the luxury automobiles they'll accompany.

Did we need another reason to want a Bentley, or another way to express our style when pulling up the driveway in one? No, but it certainly couldn't hurt.

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Swatch Group Sues UBS Over Broken Investment Promises

by Ariel Adams (RSS feed) —

Filed under: Timepieces / Watches

This is a case that many people around the world would like to take up with their financial advisers. Back during the bubble, the late Nicolas Hayek took advice from UBS and put money in what is being claimed were "absolute return fund" investments. The investments were not absolute, and the Swatch Group lost money. They claim that UBS misrepresented the risk and breached implicit promises of "assured returns." Swatch Group is seeking a return of about 30 million Swiss Francs. Swatch Group is the largest watch conglomerate in the world and responsible for a number of Swiss watch brands.

Success for the Swatch Group in Switzerland would set precedent that investment providers such as UBS would be required to either compensate clients for lost investments (perhaps also earnings) as well as spend much more time and effort offering risk disclosures to clients. They will of course claim that a victory for Swatch Group would open the doors to tons of other litigants - but is that so bad given the behavior of UBS and a like companies over the last few years? There are risky investments, and there are misleading and irresponsible ones. Swatch Group doesn't need the 30 million, but new CEO Nick Hayek (after the death of his father) wishes to make a stand on the issue.

Via Financial Times and WorldTempus.

Ariel Adams publishes the luxury watch reviews site aBlogtoRead.com.

Tags: investment, sue, suit, Swatch Group, UBS, watch

Frosdick of London Offers World's Most Expensive Bespoke Wardrobe

by Jared Paul Stern (RSS feed) —

Filed under: Apparel, Luxury Cars & Autos, Men's Style

Frosdick of London, makers of the beautiful bespoke safari boots we wrote about back in April, is offering a unique opportunity to acquire "the most expensive wardrobe in the history of tailoring" - complete with a custom luxury car to match - for $1 million. The one-of-a-kind "Million-Dollar Dandy" package includes 14 bespoke Savile Row suits, made from the purchaser's choice of the world's finest fabrics; 28 custom-tailored dress shirts; 28 custom-made silk ties; and 14 pairs of bespoke shoes and boots created from exotic leathers. The suits, shirts and ties will all be handmade by Henry Poole of Savile Row, the famed tailor favored by British royalty. The shoes and boots will be crafted by another royal favorite, London's Schnieder of Clifford Street. Complementing the more formal attire will be a selection of elegant smoking jackets and dressing gowns.

The latter will be made by Prince Charles' tailor Turnbull & Asser, enhanced by discreet accents in diamonds and precious metals, along with the Million-Dollar Dandy crest. All measurements and subsequent fittings prior to actual completion will be carried out in London. Frosdick of London will then commission the Queen of England's nephew, furniture designer Viscount David Linley, to craft a bespoke wardrobe in precious woods to house it all. Finally, the Million-Dollar Dandy will receive a bespoke motorcar hand built by Bristol, the last wholly British-owned luxury car builder in existence. The truly unique vehicles are not sold through any dealers or distributors, maintaining the note of ultimate exclusivity conveyed by the custom clothing. Email david@frosdickoflondon.com for more info.

[via JustLuxe]

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Chloe Punto Milano Pants

by Marsha Reid (RSS feed) —

Filed under: Apparel

Chole's Punto Milano Pants unexpectedly infuse the casualness of sweatpants with trousers. While that description sounds pretty unflattering, creative designer Hannah MacGibbon, actually translates this look quite well into a wearable ensemble. Granted, it seems wearable for someone who is tall and pretty slim, but nonetheless, it is wearable.

The Punto Milano Pants ($1495) are made from a cashmere/camel/alpaca mix and features a ribbed high waist, harem style legs with ribbed banded cuffs. They look best with its matching jacket and then paired with a pale colored blouse, preferably something silky, as shown above. I love the contrast between a dressy material like silk against a casually styled suit. The whole outfit has a definite 70's chic vibe to it that celebrates a woman's seductiveness without putting her body on full display.

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Zegna Promises a Sweatproof Suit for $1,200

by Lisa Palladino (RSS feed) —

Filed under: Apparel, Men's Style

Zegna Promises a Sweatproof Suit for $1,200

After what felt like weeks of 90-plus-degree temps on the East Coast, the heat has broken a bit, but you know it's coming back. Gentlemen, it may be time to invest in one of Zegna's sweatproof suits. NYC free paper amNewYork test-drove the suit, which was made by Mohan's Custom Tailors in NYC for $1,200 and is made with Australian wool, said to wick moisture and cool the skin.

While the tester noted he certainly felt cooler than in other suits, this suit is not a panacea: "It's not like I'm wearing an air conditioner," said Christopher Sabatini (at right), amNewYork's design director, who tested the anti-sweat suit in the subways, "but sweat is not rolling down my back." It took Sabatini 10 minutes to start sweating on the Penn Station platform; he said he would usually "be a flood" by then.

No doubt this suit would come in handy in other hot climes, like New Orleans, Miami, Phoenix, D.C., or (your hot city here).

Tags: heat, mens style, suit, sweatproof, Zegna

Supreme Court To Decide Fate Of Luxury Items Gray Market: Costco v. Omega

by Ariel Adams (RSS feed) —

Filed under: Timepieces / Watches

This topic is near and dear to my heart because of the legal aspect and the watch aspect. I am not going to present to you a law school style outline of the legal history or implications of this case, but rather what it all means.

Back in 2004 Omega got pissed at Costco for selling Omega watches that it purchased not from Omega as an authorized dealer, but rather from gray market distributors. Costco has some good deals on high-end watches because it legally buys watches from people who have inventory acquired from unsold authorized retailer inventory or otherwise from retailers around the world. Costco is able to buy these slightly older model watches at lower prices. At the same time, they are not bound by Omega's pricing policies that govern authorized dealers.

Omega can't stop Costco from selling the watches because Costco legally bought them from sources that somewhere down the line, legitimately bought them from Omega. So after much bitching and moaning, Omega sued on a copyright claim.

The claim says Costco had no right to sell products with Omega intellectual property without Omega's permission. The first court sided with Costco, and Omega appealed. The second court sided with Omega, and the Costco appealed to the Supreme Court. At this point the Supreme Court doesn't need to hear the case. For the most part, the Supreme Court chooses the cases it wants to hear. Recently, the Supreme Court announced that it would hear the case in the Fall. The case is: Costco Wholesale Corp. v. Omega, S.A., 08-1423.

Aside from being interesting as the parties are companies most people know well, the outcome of the case has some serious implications. On the one hand, the case might strike a serious blow to the life of the gray market, which are lower cost goods that are resold into the market and ultimately sold at lower prices to consumers. On the other hand, the case might validate the gray market, forcing brands like Omega that are highly price sensitive to rethink their business model and reduce their reliance on third party authorized dealers.

The watch world will be looking very closely at the issue, especially as the decision is published in the next year.

Major watch brands are also preempting the gray market issue by making serious changes to the way they do business. This of course also applies to luxury brands that offer products other than just watches. Instead of selling as much product to authorized dealers as possible, the business model of the future for luxury brands may likely be to sell directly to consumers. This strategy would bypass traditional dealer networks altogether.

Ariel Adams publishes the luxury watch review site aBlogtoRead.com.

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Bespoke Hermès Luggage & Wardrobe Gift Package

by Jared Paul Stern (RSS feed) —

Filed under: Apparel, Luxury Travel & Hotels, Men's Style, Wealth

For our final installment on the eye-popping holiday offerings from that glossy chronicle of the filthy rich Robb Report - following the matching custom private jet and megayacht set costing $500 million and more - we have a bespoke basket of goodies from famed French luxury goods house Hermès. Starting at $215,000 depending on what exactly the recipient chooses to indulge in, the gift includes: a custom eight-piece luggage set handcrafted by a single Hermès craftsman in Paris from their incredible range of luxurious, exotic leathers (above) including crocodile, alligator, ostrich and lizard, dyed in any of 300 shades; consultation with a specialist from Hermès to create a bespoke suit, topcoat, shoes, and leather and knit accessories, all of which will be made to the recipient's specifications; and a private tour of the Hermès leather atelier in Paris for the recipient and a guest. Some luggage items, like the portable alligator skin bar trunk the firm once made for Sammy Davis Jr., may take up to a year to complete.

Tags: alligator, bespoke, Hermes, luggage, Paris, suit

"Mad Men" Stars Do Good

by Amanda Gordon (RSS feed) —

In honor of "Blog Action Day," we asked some of the stars of the popular AMC series "Mad Men" what they do to make the world a better place (aside from entertaining millions of us every Sunday night with their ad agency antics -- and come to New York for a night to help Brooks Brothers launch its "Mad Men" suit, which we'll be telling you about later). Although the show is set in the 1960s, their concerns are very current.

"What we put into our lives, what we choose to eat, is the biggest statement I can make," says Vincent Kartheiser, who plays Pete Campbell, an Account Executive at Sterling Cooper. Kartheiser wasn't always as aware. "I ate meat four years ago and smoked cigarettes four years ago," he says. It wasn't easy, but he gave both up. "If I didn't accept they were bad, I never would have quit. But that was the first step. I see a lot of things I need to do to change. We need to take that step and say this is something I should do, and even if don't do it yet, that's a step in the right direction," he says. He has taken action to reduce consumption and protect the environment. "I don't drive - I only take public transportation, and I don't believe in having children," he says. He also doesn't wear fur and doesn't buy leather. And just where might you find him eating a vegetarian meal? Café Muse, in his neighborhood in Los Angeles.

Janie Bryant, the Emmy-award-winning costume designer of the show, is in charge of some of the smallest details to give the show an authentic 1960s feel, but when it comes to doing good, she has one basic principle. "The most important thing I can do to improve the world is to have positive thoughts. That's what creates everything: energy, recycling, reinventing. It all comes from there," she says.

Rich Sommer, who plays Harry Crane - the head of the Television Department on the show - says, "I have two causes I think of every day," His brother spent a year in a half there in the military and made it home. "I oppose the war, but I support the guys who are over there. So I support Operation Homefront," a nonprofit that supports our troops and helps the families they leave behind, Sommer says. His other cause: gay rights. "These are people I live with, work with, am friends with," he says, noting it's not right that they may be treated differently back in his home state of Minnesota than in New York or California.

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James Bond's Brioni Suits & More at Auction

by Jared Paul Stern (RSS feed) —

Filed under: Apparel, Auctions, Celebrity Shopping, Men's Style

Several items of clothing worn by Pierce Brosnan in the James Bond films including his Brioni suits are on offer at Bonhams' Entertainment Memorabilia sale in London on June 16. Highlights include a razor sharp three-piece navy wool Brioni suit with a ticket pocket, estimated at £2,500 - £3,000, and a cream herringbone linen Brioni suit, estimated at £3,000 - 4,000, both from 1995's Goldeneye. The suits have Brosnan's name embroidered on the lining and are accompanied by film stills showing him wearing the items. Other Brosnan / Bond items include a pair of leather jackets, a selection of Turnbull & Asser shirts and ties, and even Kevlar body armor. There are a few articles of clothing worn by Roger Moore as 007 featured in the sale as well.

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The World's Most Expensive Suit To Be Delivered Today

by Deidre Woollard (RSS feed) —

Filed under: Apparel, Men's Style

Designer Alexander Amosu is most famous for his diamond-covered phones but he is also behind the world's most expensive suit. The £70,000 suit took more than 80 hours to create. It will be delivered to a private buyer who has not been named at a party in central London today.

The suit is made from material that includes vicuna and qiviuk, the world's most expensive wool, gathered from the Arctic muskox blended with pashmina to create a cloth known as Vanquish II. This is the same fabric used in Brioni's $43,000 suit. Amosu's suit includes nine 18-carat gold and pave-set diamond buttons. The designer tells the Telegraph, "buying an Alexander Amosu suit is the ultimate in luxury."

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Isaia x Jeffrey Ltd. Edition Men's Collection

by Jared Paul Stern (RSS feed) —

Filed under: Apparel, Men's Style

Italian luxury clothing brand Isaia, makers of the $2,000 crocodile skin sneakers we wrote about last year, has launched an exclusive new limited edition collection with high-end men's boutique Jeffrey. Designed by fashion icon Jeffrey Kalinsky, the collection combines his contemporary flair with the hand-tailoring, workmanship and luxurious fabrics Isaia is famed for. Kalinsky's modern-fit "J-body" suiting design is available in Isaia's exclusive grey and navy Aquaspider water-and-wrinkle resistant wool, and a tan 90% cashmere, 10% wool glen plaid. The made-to-measure garments feature hand-sewn buttonholes, pockets, floating chest piece and linings. There are also solid blue and white Sea Island cotton shirts as well as silk ties in a custom width.

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JoS. A. Banks Says Lose Your Job, We'll Let You Keep The Suit For Free

by Deidre Woollard (RSS feed) —

Filed under: Apparel

JoS. A. Bank Clothiers has created a new program to keep nervous businessmen buying suits. The company says they will refund the price of a suit if the purchaser loses his job and also allow him to keep the suit. The offer applies to any suit (or suit separates coat plus pants) purchased during the JoS. A. Bank $199 Sale, from March 16, 2009 through April 9, 2009. If the customer involuntarily loses his job between April 16, 2009 and July 1, 2009,the company will refund his money up to a maximum of $199, and he may keep the suit.

The suitmaker joins other companies such as Hyundai which promises that if you buy a car and then lose your job they will pick up the payments for three months and Jet Blue which offers refunds to those who book trips but then find themselves jobless.

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$50,000 Suits Cut From World's Most Expensive Cloth

by Jared Paul Stern (RSS feed) —

Filed under: Apparel, Men's Style

Holland & Sherry, the world famous fabric weaver and cloth merchant founded in Scotland in 1836, is offering an extremely limited edition range of bespoke suits cut from the world's most luxurious and expensive cloth. The firm, which has premises on Savile Row, has woven the world's first 100 per cent worsted spun Vicuna fabric, the most expensive in the world at over $4,000 per yard. The material (above) comes from the wool of the elusive wild Vicuna, a relative of the llama that lives high in the Andes mountains of Peru and Bolivia.

The Vicuna can only be shorn every three years and yields an extremely small amount of fine wool. It took Holland & Sherry five years to gather enough of the exclusive yarn, and another year and a half to develop the unique cloth, which is much finer than cashmere. There is only enough of the precious fabric to make 18 suits, each of which will cost about $50,000. Customers will have only three colors to choose from – black, midnight and natural. The King of Morocco is among the first to place an order for one of the gorgeous garments.

Tags: Bespoke, Cashmere, Fabric, Holland Sherry, HollandSherry, Peru, Savile Row, SavileRow, Scotland, Suit, Vicuna

Obama's Tux Maker Goes Bankrupt

by Jared Paul Stern (RSS feed) —

Filed under: Apparel, Men's Style

Hartmarx, the Chicago-based clothing company that made President Obama's dodgy tuxedo for the inaugural ball (above), as well as several of the suits he wore on the campaign trail, has just filed for bankruptcy the Chicago Tribune reports. Obama favors the firm's fairly bland Hart Schaffner Marx line, but the company also makes high-end men's clothing under its Hickey Freeman label, that, to our way of thinking, is much more suitable for a stylish young Chief Executive (it even has a Presidential Collection). Hart Schaffner Marx sales have picked up a bit thanks to Obama, but not nearly enough.

A newer, hipper Hickey Freeman spinoff, hickey, has recently become a fashionista favorite, and will hopefully survive the process. The company plans to continue operating while it undergoes a reorganization, but said it may sell some or all of its assets. Hartmarx, the largest maker of men's tailored clothing in the U.S., traces its roots to 1872, when brothers Harry and Max Hart first opened a men's clothing store in Chicago. The company also owns the downmarket Sansabelt and Palm Beach brands, and has licensing agreements with several well known labels.

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