I searched the Trafik tradeshow floor in Miami for fresh and exciting trends for spring ’09. While I didn’t find anything completely new and innovative, I did find brands executing current contemporary trends very well.

Left: Cardigan by Drifter. Right: Chuck Bass on The CW's Gossip Girl wears a cardigan with a dress shirt and tie.

Cardigans:...

When Karen and I walked into Project last Tuesday we never thought we’d leave with a new pair of Nudie jeans. We stopped by to check out the spring collection when Diego Rosa of Want Agency asked if we wanted to swap our jeans for a pair of theirs.

I was a little skeptical (I was wearing one of my favorite pair of black skinny jeans) and Karen was...

While surfing the web yesterday, an article on men.style.com caught my eye. It featured 10 reasons to be cheerful this summer, 10 cures for the summertime blues. Items of note are: The return of the BMW M1, Flickr porn and Topman’s U.S. debut.

With Vegas just around the corner, I started thinking about the things I was most cheerful about for this...

As a loyal reader of pretty much every menswear/fashion blog on the Internet, there has been a lot of buzz on the web about Freeman’s Sporting Club, a men’s store in Manhattan’s Lower East side that specializes in made-to-measure suits, tailored clothing and some sportswear. FSC is opening another barber shop in New York.

Photo courtesy of Freeman's...

We are feverishly working on MR’s June dress-up issue which means that I’ve been out in the market talking to insiders about business and what we can look forward to for spring ’09. I’m writing a contemporary tailored clothing story and of course, spoke to Michael Macko, fashion director of Saks to get his expertise on the category. He said some very...