July 2012
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Quality x Sprezzatura: Enjoy this nonsensical... →
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And I don’t know how this whole thing even started. I look down and, caught in the moment, I stare at these new pants, thinking I know precisely every measurement, the history of its swatch and I remember putting in the hours at the tailor’s; it’s perfect, but then I remember I’m the only one…
The Big Picture…
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A painting done by Picasso in his mid-twenties was worth, he found, an average...
– -Malcolm Gladwell, LATE BLOOMERS: Why do we equate genius with precocity? (via ulkeptrce)
…all good things in time.
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A conversation with Taka of Liverano & Liverano
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I haven’t been around nearly long enough and know far too little to authoritatively talk about the incredible work that the artisans at Liverano & Liverano produce. Thankfully, those far more learned than I, like the folks at The Armoury, have already declared the atelier sartoria to be “one of the greats of the Italian tailoring world.” What I can say is that I was...
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People dress up for funerals. Why not dress up to celebrate that you’re alive?
– Gay Talese. (Quote taken from a fun Wall Street Journal article about Mr. Talese’s style)
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qualityxsprezzy:
Brunello Cucinelli - ‘A man and his dream’
un meraviglioso uomo italiano ….bene
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