February « 2010 «

GQ has just named Johnny Depp as one of the world’s most stylish men.

Because he is. There, I said it.

WHAT?

I imagine shock, indignation and outrage amongst my gentle readers as their sensibilities, finely tuned to detect elegance in all things, rebel.

And there dear readers, we have the crux of the matter. We are concerned with [...]

An Easy Alternative

I love my Belgian shoes. They are by far the most comfortable and stylish pairs of slippers available to man. But sometimes, just sometimes, I need something a bit more substantial. Substantial, but equally comfortable. Years ago I had a pair of shell cordovan pennys from B². Wore them every day for six years until [...]

Lachasse's Peter Lewis-Crown, OBE and the Hunt for Elegance

(Image via Delancey Press and used without permission. Let me know and I’ll take it down.)

A bit of an interview with Peter Lewis-Crown, OBE of the house of Lachasse via The Montebury Magazine. Mr. Lewis-Crown has just published his memoirs, House of Lachasse: The Story of a Very English Gentleman, and I have [...]

Luxe, calme et volupté.* That sounds wonderful. In today’s world, I find that there is a disturbing lack of all of the above. Maybe it’s the speed at which we live our daily lives, multitasking during each measured moment of the day and well into our nights. Whatever the reason, I think that we’ve lost something that our parents and grandparents took for granted. Not just an ease in society or how to throw an intimate dinner for six or write a thank you note, but an everyday elegance. Easy and Elegant Life is my attempt to define what makes up an elegant existence and to pass along a few easy (and inexpensive) ideas for bringing back a little elegance to our everyday lives. Here you will find ideas for living, decorating, entertaining and dressing with an easy elegance. Not just my ideas. To help point the way, I intend to seek out all sorts of people -- professional lifestyle experts and those who seem to have been born elegant -- asking them what they believe constitutes elegance and how we can best achieve it. So to those whom Honore de Balzac called “elegantologists” I dedicate this site and the good fight. * From “L’Invitation au voyage” by Charles Baudelaire. The whole line reads: “Là, tout n’est qu’ordre et beauté/ Luxe, calme et volupté.”

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