A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

Last week, on the mean streets of Soho, the Red Stripe fueled opening night of Bromance, Jack Pearce�s first ever solo show, was well under way.
Housed in Atomica Gallery until October 25^th, Jack�s inky illustrations depict friends just having a good old fashioned, lovely time together. Whether they�re skateboarding, or licking each other�s faces, the characters' wonderfully bendy limbs flail around in the most joyous way - we double dog dare you to look at Jack�s work and not smile.

Shirt: Muji 

Trousers: A charity shop find 

Socks: Muji 

Trainers: Somewhere in the U S of A 

Beard: Entirely Jack's own work 

(And in case you're wondering, he smells of "clean man")

You can read more about Bromance in Jack's interview with Huck Magazine.

In Praise of Men Wearing Skirts

Well, it has been over 10 years ago since Madonna released, What it Feels Like For a Girl and we think that the time to praise those men, who don't think that it's degrading and instead don clothes that are traditionally thought of as "for girls", is long overdue. 

Boy hero No. 1: Jean Paul Gaultier

In 1985, when Jean Paul Gaultier showed the skirt for men in his Spring/Summer collection, Et Dieu Cr�a L'Homme, it caused more than a few eyebrows to be raised, but undeterred he has continued to use fashion to question ideas about men�s behaviour and appearance, and in his collection for spring/summer 2014 the skirt for men again was featured.

Boy hero No. 2: Kurt Cobain

The pin-up from our teen years wore Courtney Love�s dresses on stage (who wouldn't though? They were pretty excellent) and again in the video for In Bloom, as a stance against traditional ideas of masculinity. In an interview with the Los Angeles Times he said that, �Wearing a dress shows I can be as feminine as I want.� Yes you can Kurt, yes you can.

Boy hero No. 3: Marc Jacobs

He has been carrying off the skirt for men with aplomb for a good while now and because it looks so natural and effortless on him the skirt no longer makes a statement, other than that of its own lack of gender - which perhaps is the loudest of all.

Shoreditch Fashion Show 2013 - Boys Keep Swinging

Our eyes were very much on stalks at Offbeat Live's Shoreditch Fashion Show 2013, as we met boys whose wardrobes we were eager to raid! Convinced, as we are, that there is at least one magpie nesting in each of our family trees, it was a great pleasure to see that the boys of East London have a similar love for all things shiny. Gentlemen, observe and take note. 

We fell hard for every part of the Pause Magazine blogger's ensemble.

Seems as though she liked the DJ's scarf as much as we did.

Samm Bate, please can we have your necklace and your eyebrows. Thx. 

Were there a prize for "Outstanding Contribution to Hair" it undoubtedly would have been awarded to The Thirst. 

Not sure that this is what The Clash were singing about, but we appreciated the studding detail on these "Guns of Brixton."

With his effortlessly cool Japanese style, Kan is very much at home in London.