At The Style Examiner, we strive to be guided by the premise that fashion is essentially about wearing what makes you feel comfortable and confident. This should be an ever-evolving personal process that relies on acquiring the knowledge and experience of wearing a garment or accessory in order to make...
The Style Examiner recently came across Etrusca, a new brand of high-quality shirts for men made in Italy. After seeing their lookbook, we decided to investigate further and we couldn’t be more pleased with what we found out. The name of the brand is derived from the Etruscan civilization that...
Handel Architects have completed the Dream Downtown Hotel in the Chelsea neighbourhood of New York City. The 12-storey building includes 316 guestrooms, two restaurants, rooftop and VIP lounges, outdoor pool and pool bar, a gym, event space, and ground floor retail. The boutique hotel sits on a site fronting both 16th...
Founded in 2009, the menswear label Mr + Mr is the brainchild of Graham Cruz and Eoin Dillon, who have been designing and producing their collections from their base in East London. The brand describes itself as embodying “the potent resurrection of a timeless masculinity, rebooted with a contemporary twist...
The Serpentine Gallery today released plans for the 2012 Serpentine Gallery Pavilion designed by Herzog & de Meuron and Ai Weiwei. The design team responsible for the Beijing National Stadium, which was built for the 2008 Olympic Games, comes together again in London in 2012 for the Serpentine’s annual commission,...
Since it opened a year ago, the Vershina Trade and Entertainment Centre has become a central point, in more ways than one, to the 300,000 inhabitants of the Russian city of Surgut, a Siberian settlement that has become a centre of oil and gas production since the 1960s. The building,...
Fashion designer Paul Smith and the British surf company Swami’s have collaborated to launch a collection of surf-inspired clothing and a limited edition surfboard. The clothing range includes hoodies and t-shirts with stylish designs, including feather motifs (as the feather is one of Swami’s recurring metaphors for the weightlessness of...
Starting later in the year, New York’s Time Square will undergo a significant refurbishment. The objective of the new design by Norwegian architecture practice Snøhetta (which has a $45 million budget) is to create an integrated, safe and iconic multifunctional public space that reflects the best spatial qualities of this...
The Style Examiner has been following the technological war unravelling between BlackBerrys and iPhones since the first battles started taking place between marketers and users at the dawn of the smartphone era. As supporters of the written word, we find BlackBerry keyboards very convenient for typing away our views on...
On most J W Anderson‘s menswear shows, audiences seem to spend a longer amount of time engaging in a collective subconscious appreciation of the looks that take to the runway than actually examining the clothes for their ingenuity and technical proficiency. If this bodes well for Anderson’s stylists and editors...