There have been some signs recently that the era of the influencer has peaked.  In a recent Business of Fashion article, brands and PR agencies talked about how expensive Instagram has become. “If Instagram launched today, we would be laughing at ...

Best UK menswear store outside London: Dick's, Edinburgh Runner's up: End, Kafka, Oi Polloi, Stewart Christie, Walker Slater, The Bureau, Aero Leather One of the loveliest things about the PS awards this year was the opportunity to highlight some i...

[Correction: This piece originally stated that the jacket did not have a hand-padded lapel. It does, and this has now been added below.] This pink corduroy jacket was made for me by Orazio Luciano, over a period of six months.  I was measured at Pit...

The reason Milan became the centre of Italian fashion was Florence and Rome couldn't sort out a fight.  Italian clothing itself became successful abroad because people were tired of the 'haughty, arty' French.  Spurred by our recent discussion of A...

I met Mattia during our recent pop-up shop on Savile Row. A Permanent Style reader, he is also a fashion student, which gives him an interesting perspective on classic menswear.  I enjoyed talking to him, and his friends, about their studies and the...

Last week I wrote about visiting the Paris trade shows for the first time, and being able to interview some new brands as a result. Today I’m going to highlight three that we found particularly interesting.  The first is Yuketen, the craft-based s...

I’ve been playing around with black so much in recent years (note, this is classic menswear - it’s years/decades, not weeks/months) that I thought I’d try out wearing nothing but black.  This was during Pitti at Florence, on a relatively infor...

The Finest Polo - our superfine, high-twist merino knit - is back in stock, with black and charcoal new for this season, alongside navy.  The colour choice this summer was partly driven by last summer. I wore a sample of a charcoal at Pitti last yea...

By Aleks Cvetkovic. For much of my career I’ve felt like an anomaly, especially at the likes of Pitti or industry events. Principally this is because I’ve always chosen to wear structured tailoring, largely from London tailors, over the unstruct...

Of all the things we cover in the ‘How great things age’ series, a bag such as this probably has the most potential - because it is made of canvas, leather and brass.  All those three materials age differently.  Brass, presuming it’s not ...

In the continuing vein of exploring sports shirts - casual, vintage-styled, often rayon or silk - I chatted a couple of months ago to my friend Jack Sepetjian, who runs Anto shirts in LA.  I first got to know Jack when he spoke at our Shirtmakers Sy...

In the hyper-casual world we’re living in, any opportunity to add a little smartness to everyday clothing should be grabbed with both hands. One of the most effective ways to do this, I’m finding, is wearing loafers with jeans.  Jeans are what m...

By Lucas Nicholson. With the closure this year of the Oi Polloi shop in Manchester by its owners, JD Sports, it felt like it was an appropriate time to talk about the state of independent menswear stores in the UK.  This is something of a passion of...

Lucas has had this canvas bag from Charlie Borrow for years, and I’ve always admired its rugged quality, particularly when we’ve traveled together. So I thought it would make a good entry in our How Great Things Age series, which of course has pa...

In January, for the first time in our history, there were over 300,000 visits to the Permanent Style site, doubtless helped by Pitti, The Times and Fuera de Serie.Thank you so much to everyone that visits, reads and contributes to the ongoing work of...

While at Pitti Uomo in January, I met up with Alexander Nurulaeff, the very large, very friendly Russian behind Dandy Shoe Care. I’ve admired his patination work from afar for quite a while, but this was an opportunity to have him try out his techn...

Unusually, I will be at Pitti this week, before going onto Milan. (I normally only go in the winter - unless you're a buyer there's little point going more often.) There will be a few images of both trips on Instagram for those that are interested:...

 This is our friend Tommaso Capozzoli. He is, among many other things, the sales manager for Stefano Bemer, and we usually stay with him when we’re in Florence. Tommaso has style. It is not loud, and it's unlikely to stand out at Pitti, but it is...

 A reader showed me these pictures from our BeShoes event in January at Pitti, which I hadn't seen before. They highlight the mix of tailors and shoemakers nicely, with Cifonelli, Corthay, Ripense, Sexton, Foster's, Rubinacci and Bemer here, just to...

 A couple of nice interviews were published with me this week, by scarf-maker Begg and by shoe blog Claymoor's list. The Begg one in particular is always nice to do at Pitti, with Yasuto Camoshita at United Arrows and Jonathan Kaiser at Bergdorf Goo...

  A couple of weeks ago when we showed the pictures from our Tailoring Symposium at Pitti, a reader asked if there were any images of Wei Koh's suit.I had mentioned that the founder of The Rake was wearing a Rubinacci-made number in the same Scab...

    Following our last two events during Pitti Uomo - the Shoemakers Symposium and the Tailors Symposium, we are following up with an event in January that will bring together some of the finest accessories makers in the world. On stage will be:...

  Nice little cartoon this, by Fei Wang aka Mr Slowboy. It's part of a series he's doing on the 10 best dressed men at Pitti. Look him up @mr.slowboy for others including George Wang, Haruo Suzuki and Simone Righi. We each add our 10 cents on sty...

  Yes, I know there are 11 in the photo...During Pitti Uomo back in January, Michael Jondral had the lovely idea of gathering together the 10 men that Rake Japan selected as the most rakish in the world. We all managed to make it to lunch at Sosta...

This week the young tailors featuring in our Symposium at Pitti will be taking over my Instagram account.Every day, a different one of the six tailors from England, Italy, Hong Kong and Korea will post images of the pieces they are making and the thi...