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Self Clothing produced the 2010 Spring/Summer Collection Video styled by my good friend (and exceptionally talented) Mr. Way Perry. Influence is drawn from music, art, history and youth culture with Direction from Joost Vandebrug.

Self SS2010 - by Joost Vanderberg from F.TAPE on Vimeo.

Monocle has teamed up with BlackBerry to produce 100 unique Bold 9700 handsets. We have created our own wallpapers for the screens and each device comes pre-loaded with Monocle’s 25/25 travel guides to the best business cities and resorts in the world. We have also created a special strap. They have 16GB cards and are also supplied with battery, charging pod, world charger, media player headset, USB and gift packaging.

I think I need one…

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Serge Gainsbourg the famous chanteur who defined a revolutionary style of song and sexuality gets his first feature film treatment in newcomer Joann Sfar’s Gainsbourg: Vie héroïque. Despite the title, Sfar accurately depicts Gainsbourg’s life as less than heroic.  Sfar, a legendary French comic book artist, actually depicts Gainsbourg’s demons as grotesque puppets that physically interact with Gainsbourg throughout his life.

No one looks to Gainsbourg for heroics though, his allure lies in his unapologetic hedonism. Thankfully hedonism films very well; especially when it involves Brigitte Bardot and Jane Birkin (two of Gainsbourg’s numerous conquests).  Die hard fans will find the film most entertaining, but anyone looking for a lesson in swagger will find a hero in Gainsbourg (By: Rodney Uhler)

Last week, SHARPS held an event at Tommy Guns Salon - showcasing SHARPS range of mens beauty products by providing killer hair cuts and fresh blade cut shaves.

SHARPS opened for business in 2002 to help get guys comfortable in their own skin and spark a major movement around new-school barbering. They launched their first product in 2003 at a small barbershop in NYC. Today SHARPS has a full range of products for SHAVE, HAIR, BODY, and FACE.SHARPS is now sold in top barbershops and retail stores in the USA and all around the world, including a SHARPS Barber and Shop in London, UK which opened in 2007.

For more images from the event - take a look below.

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Here’s the full story for The Block’s spring issue featuring Major’s Simon Nessman.

Photographed by Michael Schwartz and styled by James Worthington DeMolet, take a look below at the full shoot after the jump.

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