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Harvard has entered into a deal with Wearwolf Group to produce Harvard Yard menswear, a line of preppy, plaid-heavy shirts, pants, shorts and jackets that wouldn't look out of place in a Rhode Island Ralph Lauren outlet but might look a bit much on campus in 2009. Field & Stream magazine, meanwhile, has partnered with the Otto Group, an enormous German mail-order and e-commerce company, to create Field & Stream-brand clothes. "Wear Your Passion," Field & Stream's website commands. It contends you can wear its khakis, jackets and shirts everywhere - field, stream or office. (See the Fashion...
...Harvard label is just another way to do preppy merchandise," says menswear-fashion expert Robert E. Bryan, author of American Fashion Menswear, a new book on the history of male dressing. "Except that maybe Harvard gives it more authenticity because that's where the real prepsters go." Authenticity was also the holy grail for Bryan Griggs, who designed the line for the Field & Stream brand and says the clothes were inspired by his travels through Wyoming's Grand Tetons...
...Topshop's menswear label, Topman, which makes up about a third of the business, will be housed in the basement level of the Manhattan store, while the latest women's trends will be featured on the ground floor along with a DJ booth. The second floor is reserved for Moss's line and Topshop's denim brand, MOTO, as well as collaborations with British designers like Jonathan Saunders, Marios Schwab and Preen. In late April, Topshop will introduce another collaboration with Biba owner and '60s fashion icon Barbara Hulanicki. The third floor will house shoes, accessories and lingerie...
Gallery Madrid, Jorge Juan, 38 (34-91-576-7931; gallerymadrid.com) has great menswear, magazines and books and a really good selection of fancy wines that you can sample...
Sherlock Holmes became a tweed icon at the turn of the last century after sporting nubby wool capes while on the trail of London's miscreants. Ralph Lauren's first collection in 1968 made the tweed suit a menswear staple. And now Lower East Side hipsters can't seem to get enough of the classic suiting fabric, signaling that tweed is staging a comeback. For his fall collection, Junya Watanabe spun the storied fabric into schoolboy blazers nostalgic for jaunts across Cambridge's Bridge of Sighs. And with the recent sartorial resurgence, it's no surprise that tweed is migrating...