/ RALPH LAUREN

MENNO VAN MEURS
I am the owner of the denim store Tenue de Nîmes and the Red Wing Shoes store in Amsterdam. In addition to that I am the publisher of the quarterly magazine/weblog Journal de Nîmes.

Today (August 26th 2010) I am wearing a pair of grey Classic Work Chukka’s Sage Mohave by RED WING with a pair of BURLINGTON socks to complete them. On top of that I am wearing my hand-numbered (rigid) TELLASON x TENUE DE NîMES jeans. It’s one of the 24 Cone Mill’s denim pairs that our friends from San Francisco made for us in May this year. I am wearing a braided leather belt with a small brass buckle by ROYAL REPUBLIQ. On my denim I wear a customized, vintage RALPH LAUREN Oxford shirt that dates back to the 80’s. Because Autumn has started early I am wearing a blue ‘Harris Tweed” jacket that is finished with a monochram-chambray pocket square by our favorite Japanese denim label MOMOTARO. I will never leave the house without a vintage timepiece. My favorite watch is a 1964 TUDOR Submariner with a special Nato strap with leather lining. Last but not least NY based LE LABO provides me my favorite perfume: Rose 31, it will make every day start with a smile.

DIANA YEN & LISEL ARROYO
Cooks/Designers working in Brooklyn, New York
www.thejewelsofny.com

Both wearing custom made matching chocolate striped linen aprons, which we had designed ourselves and sewn up for us in chinatown. Diana is wearing JO MALONE Jasmine Mint perfume, red lipstick, hair in side pony tied in a bow with antique handwoven linen ribbon from BELLOCHIO, blue and white crisp cotton button up shirt from J CREW with sleeves rolled up, classic CARTIER watch, dark blue J BRAND jeans, grey wool socks from TIMBERLAND, and L.L. BEAN winter boots. Lisel’s hair is tied back in mini dotted navy ribbon from TINSEL TRADING, dark blue jeans from UNIQLO, tucked in blue denim workshirt from RALPH LAUREN, stamped leather horse cameo necklace from OPENING CEREMONY, and TIMBERLAND snow boots.

February 25th-Experimenting in the kitchen with new recipes on a snowy day in Brooklyn Heights.

MORDECHAI S RUBINSTEIN
 Garmentologist based in NYC

Red wide wale corduroy trousers from RALPH LAUREN purchased in Fall ‘09 but washed a hundred times to give it a burnt out effect. Vintage thermal from the french military. Chambray Shirt from RALPH LAUREN from SS08 but a classic (as is everything I wear). A navajo serape patterned chamois shirt as jacket. Beeswax leather CLARKS desert boots. (I buy then a size and 1/2 small to wear sans laces). Custom drawers and hosiery from My tailor in Paris.

December 4th