Grooming Essentials

Each year around springtime, we take a trip out to Japan to catch up with old friends, check in with our stores, and revisit a few of our favorite restaurants. This year’s trip began with an amazing event at Ba-Tsu Gallery celebrating the work of photographer Jiro Konami, carried on with our store staff as…

colin tunstall:Where did you grow up? adrian gaut:Portland, Oregon. ct:So you grew up in the Northwest and then you moved to New York? ag:It was maybe a week before 9/11. I came here to work for David LaChapelle, and it was sort of an obscure connection through the university I was at. Paige Powell—who ran…

morgan collett: Tell us a little bit about your company. bryan fox: Well, the company started as a joke, as a cynical way to make fun of our friends who had energy drink sponsors. austin smith: But it’s not like we sat down and said, “Hey we should start a company, what should we do?”…

Guided by memory and intuition, Rafael Prieto (aka Rafa)—the co-founder of Casa Bosques Chocolates and the creative studio Savvy—uses chocolate as a way to capture moments in his life. Each flavor he produces is no accident but, instead, speaks to a place and an atmosphere. The result is dark, almost-ebony bars of chocolate that are…

Chris Christenson began his shaping career making boards for the surf team at Point Loma Nazarene University. After working under shaping legends like Dick Brewer and Skip Frye, he has since gone on to establish himself as one of the premier shapers in the world. A master as making all types of boards, Christenson has…

Our ongoing partnership with Everlast continues this season with an all-new capsule collection inspired by the memory of Floyd Patterson, “The Gentleman of Boxing.” The contrast between his athletic prowess inside the ring and his calm demeanor outside of boxing influenced our 14-piece collaborative collection, which includes satin coaches jackets, boxing shorts, mock-neck sweats, and…

Kasuri derives its name from the Japanese word “kasureru”, which means “to blur.” The technique involves binding yarns, resist-dyeing them, and then untying them to reveal intervals of coloration. When woven together, these dyed yarns can produce complex patterns that are sometimes feathered or blurred at the edges, depending on the desired design. This traditional…