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03 Forward 04 The Lightbodies ~ William Montalvo 06 Left Field ~ London Silver 08 Back Stage ~ Arkan Zakharov 12 Baxter Of California ~ London Silver 14 Ammo ~ Dru Downy 15 Three Wheels Spinning Part 2 ~ Gene Wisniewski 23 Prett Green Sunglasses ~ Addison De Witt

24 Pocket Square Clothing ~ Naomi West 28 Heat To Toe ~ Florence Leung 36 Pasadena ~ Mike Nguyen 50 Quinton Hershon ~ Alejandro Garcia 60 Tropics ~ Christele Jacquemin 82 Semper Fi ~ Mike Nguyen 86 Introduce - Marina P. ~ Red NYC 87 Stockists

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MIKE NUGYEN Mike Nguyen has always surrounded himself with talented artists and people. Mike Nguyen began to shoot whenever he could, as a hobby only four years ago. Working with the right people, publications, talented designers, stylists, hair/ make-up artists, editors and agency represented models has been a key roll in his success as a fashion photographer.

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A photographer originally from France, but settled in Murcia, she just loves travelling. Thanks to that she has learnt - and I go on learning - to realize what differentiates each culture, the details of every landscape, the way creativity opens up your mind. As she journeys she analyze all the different components of advertising, how images are used, how brands and values can be projected. And that’ s why photography is to advertising what the eye of the beholder is to the mirror: inseparable.

Alejandro Garcia was born in Mexico in a small town of La Angostura, Michoacan. Raised in the Bay Area, in the city of Richmond, California.

Alejandro studied photography at the Academy of Art University where he received his BFA. He is now working in NYC as a freelance photographer and is represented by Aardvark Aartists Agency in NY and LA. At the age of 26 Alejandro maintains his hu$tle by staying focused and inspired. “ Keep shooting, It’s the only way you’re going to get better.” he says

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ur Men’s Issue is admittedly one of my favorites to produce. In it, we offer 4 fashion stories by some of toady up and coming photographers. Our Heat To Toe story, which lists the latest gadgets, gear and swag for him. It also gives a peek inside the latest eyewear collection by Pretty Green’s designer Lian Gallagher. I was immediately drawn to the design and packaging Baxter of California’s men’s grooming product. Get your whistle whet with the Maple Leaf Rag at the Los angeles hot spot to eat Ammo.

We also have second part of Three Wheels spinning, the series by Gene Wisniewski.

How you enjoy it as much as I enjoyed putting it together.

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recent experiments employ materials such as laser, fog and lucite to interpret light’s properties by way of bold colors, shapes, and varying consistencies.

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Formerly a sweater factory, the Left Field space is about as raw is it gets.

There’s no real decor to speak of, nothing flashy or meant to impress, just purely utilitarian. Ceiling-high industrial steel shelves, over-stuffed boxes of new and old stock, enormous reams of denim, chambray and canvas, samples of upcoming collection pieces. “Believe it or not, I know where everything is” he tells me while I poke through a box of sweatshirts. “There’s an order to it all.” Sprinkled throughout the clutter are random hold-overs from seasons past. Little relics from the brand’s decade-long existence, adding an almost museum-like quality to the space. From a box under where I’m sitting, I pull out a bag of old t-shirt decals. “Yeah,” he smirks, looking at the sack of helmeted skulls, “I’ve been doing this for a while.”

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“I do whatever has to be done,” he tells me when I ask him about his day-today. “Pressing, washing, sewing labels – if I don’t do it, it won’t happen.”

McCann’s get-it-done-at-any-cost DIY approach has been paramount to the brand’s longevity. He shows me the first-ever Left Field lookbook filled with cut-outs from 70s biker mags and crudely drawn illustrations of the premier collection. “I started this in a kitchen, pressing t-shirts on the table. It’s always been this way. I’m just making more stuff now, so there’s more to do.”

We take a full look at the denim collection for 2012. Five styles of denim jeans are offered from various mills including Cone Mills (U.S.A.) and Japanese mills including Nisshinbo Mills and Kaihara Mills. The selections are yours to make. From the lookbook, these are more than built tough and ready to withstand all our riding and wearing habits.

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B AC K S TA G E Arkan Zakharov captures the candid backstage glamour of a fantasy fashion week, with pieces from Balmain, Givenchy and Lanvin. All clothing avalable at Ssense.

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Even the travel kit in the collection manages to be a work of functional art with the ability to lie flat for storage, or stand up to be used at the sink.

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by Gene Wisniewski GeneWisniewski.com He carefully peeled Ryan’s arm off his chest so as not to wake him.

“Lucky he didn’t wake up and see me,” he thought as he caught a glimpse of himself in the bathroom mirror. “He probably would have turned to stone.”

When he walked back into the living room, he saw that Ryan was now sprawled out over the entire bed. He decided it would be best to just steal out and leave him a note.

When he got home, he fixed himself a breakfast that was as lunch-like as possible. As he concocted a sandwich loosely based on the Egg McMuffin, he thought about the previous night. The benefit had done very well, earning more than $14,000. He was happy to have been a part of it, by lending a hand as well as by selling his piece (a short while after he got back, as it turns out).

Not only that, he’d shut down a club! With a twenty-six-year-old! Who’d asked him to stay over!

In any event, he wasn’t going to begin making a habit of it. His days of sailing past the velvet ropes and being given a handful of drink tickets were a distant memory. If it hadn’t been for Ryan, he probably wouldn’t have been so much as a blip on the doorman’s radar.

But meanwhile, being with Ryan made him think about how much more circumspect he had become, maybe more than he cared to. Used to be he was always up for some excitement, and would talk to just about anybody if they looked interesting enough. Now, it was like he always needed a pretext to meet new people—being at the same dinner party, being introduced by a friend, something. Part of it was that the novelty of living in the big city had worn off, which, he supposed, was inevitable. He’d also learned to be a trifle more prudent about associating with certain characters that it wasn’t necessarily prudent to associate with. And somewhere down the road he’d come to the

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conclusion that such behavior, while charming on a younger person, just seems weird on someone a bit older. Nevertheless, he felt like Ryan could prove to be a good influence.

Tuesday night he made himself go to bed closer to his regular time. Wednesday was a work night, and he wanted to tinker with his new painting before he went in, this one of Gertrude Stein dressed as Batgirl. When he arrived home at about one AM as per usual, there was a message on his machine from Ira, asking him if he’d like to have dinner over the weekend. Jack decided he needed to check his horoscope more often, so he could be prepared for weeks like this.

He returned Ira’s call from his job the next day during his dinner break to say he’d be delighted. He also put in a call to Ryan, but only got his voice mail.

If Monday night was a rare experience of one type, Saturday night was a rare experience of quite another. Spending two hundred dollars on dinner wasn’t anything Jack was at all in the habit of doing. Even if it wasn’t him doing the spending.

When Ira suggested “heading over to One If By Land”, an upscale eatery in Greenwich Village, Jack knew he was going to have to make it known right away that, at last inspection, his checking account contained roughly fortytwo dollars, slightly more than a dollar for every year he had resided on the planet thus far. This state of affairs, he informed Ira, could conceivably last in perpetuity.

“Don’t worry about it. I afford to can donate to a good cause every once in a while. I look at it as supporting the arts.”

“It’s not exactly the same as donating to the Whitney Museum so they can build a new wing. And I don’t know if I like being thought of as a charity anyway.”

“Relax! I didn’t mean anything by it. I just didn’t want you to fret over the money. And besides, indirectly I am giving it to the Whitney, since I have no doubt that someday you’ll wind up there.”

“I’ve already been there. Lots of times.”

“I’m hungry. Let’s eat. Tell you what—I’ll complain about my job and write it off as a business deduction instead.”

“Okay. Just so long as you know what you’re getting into.”

They had a wonderful evening, even if the restaurant was a mite on the stuffy side for Jack’s taste. The atmosphere, though charming, was so hushed that you could hear someone buttering their bread. He was actually relieved when they stepped outside, where they could speak above a murmur. His observations to that effect were lost on Ira, who declared it to be one of his favorite places.

Ira, it turned out, had also grown up in New Jersey, but in a ritzy town inland from the southeastern coast of the state. They compared notes about the cultural differences between the two regions, the one being New York-centric and the other revolving around Philly. Ira did make reference to how much G ene 0 1 5

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he hated being a lawyer, as promised, especially since this was be his last spell of relative freedom before he had to take part in a huge merger that threatened to eat up all of his weekdays and seep into his weekends for an indeterminable period. It made him shudder to think about it. He’d come from “good Republican stock” (which, he commented, contained mostly vegetables). He told Jack he’d always had a passionate interest in art, and had once planned on studying himself; that is, until his innate practicality and attachment to creature comforts had made him decide differently. He loved going to galleries, but didn’t usually frequent openings (“too much of a scene”). He was at this one only because his nephew had had a piece in it.

After dinner, Ira suggested taking in a movie. A lively discussion ensued, as they tried to decide between them which of the films on Ira’s short list they would see. “The two hours wasted on a bad movie is time of your life that can never be reclaimed,” he said. “And since I have so little that even vaguely resembles a life, I have to be very careful about these things.”

They found something to agree on, and Jack couldn’t help but wonder if Ira felt as strongly about the time spent arguing about which movie to see.

Nonetheless, they both were happy with their choice, and a second lively discussion ensued as they dissected the film over drinks afterward, which Jack insisted on paying for, over Ira’s protests. They parted company at about 1 AM, after making plans for the following Saturday.

Sometime in the middle of the week, Jack tried to reach Ryan, but once again got his voice mail. Well, two messages were enough. If he wanted to call back, he would. If it had been a fling, it had been a really good one.

For their next night out, Jack suggested going bowling, both to show Ira that he was fine with being a cheap date, and because he thought it would be fun. But Ira asked if maybe that could be put off till some future point, saying he would rather go to dinner and a play.

“Please indulge me,” he said, “I deserve it after my week. I had to review a brief today that was anything but and had more bullets in it than Bonnie and Clyde’s car. But that would be a topic for later discussion.”

His third Saturday rendezvous with Ira stretched into Sunday. They went to a museum, followed by brunch. If once again Ira chose a place he might not have, their day was as pleasant as the night before had been. Sadly, Jack’s having to work that night and Ira’s needing to be a lawyer on Monday precluded the possibility of extending the weekend any further.

It was beginning to look as though he wouldn’t be hearing from Ryan; close to three weeks had passed. And he wasn’t likely to bump into him at Twilo, since he probably wouldn’t be popping in there again even given another seventeen years.

But then, as if summoned, Ryan did call, the very next day.

“Sorry it took so long to get back to you. I was finishing some unfinished unpleasant business. What do you say we go out and do something interesting?

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Or if you want, we can do something dull and make it interesting.”

Jack wondered where what he seemed to have had been all these years.

“Which is your preferred option?” he asked.

“I say we do something dull. It’ll be more of a challenge.”

“Then let’s wait until tomorrow. You can accompany me to my unbearably tedious office job.”

“There are some challenges even I’m not up for.”

“Look, it’s actually a nice night out. Why don’t we go for a walk? It doesn’t get much more commonplace than that. We’ll even go to a colorless neighborhood.

I vote for the East 30’s.”

“Let’s reconsider this. The irony of my suggestion seems to have escaped you. I say we venture down to the East Village. It presents a much greater likelihood of being amusing, and you can revel in the feelings of envy you arouse in me with tales of how much more so it was twenty years ago.”

“Deal. We’ll try to recreate Ye Olde East Village as much as possible. I’ll see if we can arrange to have some junkies strewn about on the sidewalk.”

“And then we’ll hit Twilo.”

“When should we meet? Ten?” “Cool. I’ll meet you outside the Astor Place subway stop.”

Jack, uncharacteristically, was whistling as he got ready. He was finally escaping that middling sort of muddle he’d allowed himself to get mired in over the past few years. He felt as if he was climbing off a treadmill and onto a merrygo-round. What a difference a day makes (great song title, he thought—until he remembered it already was one)! If he hadn’t gone to the art show—more specifically, if he hadn’t been doing what he was doing at the art show—none of this would have happened. Ah, the vagaries of fate.

Jack came out of the station at a few minutes before ten. Ryan showed up in a taxi half an hour late but profusely apologetic. He was having insurmountable hair problems as it was, he said, and then his friend Pillz (“he spells it with a ‘z’; I suppose he should”) called and he was very upset because his girlfriend had just left him for his boyfriend and Ryan couldn’t get him off the phone for forever and next the jacket he wanted to wear that was the only conceivable option for the outfit he had on was nowhere to be found and the subway was running local, which meant it stopped between stations too, so he finally wound up taking a cab the rest of the way that got caught in traffic.

“If not for that I would have been here lifetimes ago. With rare exception, I am the very definition of punctuality. I hope you haven’t been waiting long.”

“You have a friend named Pillz?”

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“His real name is Dennis, but I’m not even sure his mother knows that. He considers ‘Pillz’ to be more provocative, which, it can be argued, does have some basis in fact. So, tell me I’m forgiven, give me my three Hail Marys, and I’ll let you forge a path.”

“Don’t worry about it. As long as you had a good reason.”

The East Village, which consisted of mostly small, shabby 19th-century tenement buildings, while still a magnet for young people, was, during the 1980’s, the world epicenter of bohemia. There were violent demonstrations, protesting the gradual influx of neophyte stockbrokers attracted by its relatively low rents and arty atmosphere. Then, it had been home to hundreds of small galleries, all now long gone.

As they meandered down the sidewalks all leopard-spotted with blackened chewing gum, Jack reeled off a steady stream of anecdotes about his days hanging out there. Like at Florent, Ryan absorbed them all in wide-eyed wonder.

“I am so jealous.”

“Don’t be. If you had been twenty then you’d be hovering dangerously close to forty now.”

“I’m going to have to be almost forty someday anyhow. I’d rather be almost forty now than in 2019, when, should trends continue, the boundaries of dreariness will be pushed far beyond those we now know.”

Jack enjoyed his role of tour guide. It added a whole layer of legitimacy to what had essentially been mindless hedonism, transforming it into an Era of Significance. Some vestiges of the old days remained, like Veselka, the homey Ukrainian restaurant where they ate dinner, and Trash and Vaudeville, the punk clothing store. Jack had had memorable moments at each.

At the same time, he was in awe of Ryan’s gift for turning any activity into a party. They talked to more people in the course of this one walk than Jack customarily did in a month, just by virtue of Ryan’s enormously ebullient personality.

Shortly after midnight, they set out for Twilo. Around four, they went back to Jack’s place, since it was more convenient for getting to his job the next day than Ryan’s was.

Jack continued to see both Ryan and Ira, with greater if not great frequency.

When was largely dictated by their completely dissimilar work schedules. Ryan was weekdays, whichever ones Jack had free; Ira, weekends, or at least those that weren’t eaten up by the merger.

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Obviously, there was a possibility that things might get knotty down the road.

Jack started wondering if, when, and how he should make Ryan and Ira’s existence known to each other. Did it even really concern them, at this stage of the game? Or did putting it off for too long carry the risk of unnecessary complications and hurt feelings? Here, of course, he was thinking of Ira. Based on his knowledge of Ryan’s lifestyle, Jack imagined it wouldn’t faze him in the least.

It wasn’t required of him to broach the issue in either instance, however, since the issue was broached for him, exactly two days short of two months after Amy’s benefit.

Jack and Ryan were on their tenth outing together. Discovering that neither of them had ever done so, they decided to take a ride on the Staten Island ferry, in defiance of the crisp weather that was hanging on into March. It was one of those activities that New Yorkers usually never did unless they were entertaining friends or family from back home, or if they in fact did happen to live on Staten Island.

They contemplated the skyline of Manhattan, its dramatic and imperial presence increasing even as it became smaller and smaller in the distance. If only for the sake of not doing that which was expected, or maybe as a basis for comparison, they decided to face Staten Island on the way back.

The were taking a stroll around South Street Seaport, a once-shadowy precinct of cobblestone streets and maritime lore whose history had been sanitized into a tourist-friendly “historic district”, complete with mall, when Ryan brought up that his much-anticipated opening was going to take place that coming Saturday. This, of course, was usually Jack’s night with Ira. “Uh, can I let you know? I may have a conflict for Saturday night.”

“But you have to come. It’s my first-ever solo show. What could possibly be more important than my first-ever solo show?”

Jack could see this wasn’t going to be anywhere near as simple as he hoped.

“I’m going to be honest with you. I may have a date.”

“I know you were speaking English, because I recognized the words, and yet somehow I failed to comprehend what it was that you just said.”

“I’ve been seeing someone—someone else—well, for exactly as long as I’ve been seeing you. We met on the night of the benefit. We’ve been getting together most Saturdays ever since.”

“I can’t believe you never told me this. Do you have any bastard children you’d like to clue me in about? A secret life as the high priest of some bizarre religious cult perhaps?”

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their mission. This is their effort to tell a story, to inspire and be inspired, and to create a powerful connection with you through timeless pieces.

Everything is handmade in Los Angeles. They hand-sew all of the bow ties themselves. they also design and handcraft our own packaging including the boxes and sleeves the bow ties come in. Each bow tie is named after a persona or profession, and have a story to tell. Interesting note; each bowtie comes along with a unique concocted narrative of the gentleman that is meant to wear each piece. Pocket Square Clothing is exploring the idea of whether or not it’s sustainable to run a clothing company with products made only in America. Manufacturing products in U.S.A is a lot more expensive, but they are committed to running a premium brand with affordable price points.

They are budget conscious designers, so the idea is if they wouldn’t pay for it, why should anyone else? So far it’s working.

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Wardrobe Stylist Kristen M Stuart Hairstylist Andrew at Sessions Salon in Pasadena Makeup Artist Sparkle Tafao Model Anastassija M at Elite Retoucher Mike Nguyen Photographer assistants Jenifer Janniere & Juan Octavio

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Photography Christele Jacquemin RecreartPhotography.com

Makeup María Dolores Mayor [Centro de belleza Mayor] for Paris Berlin Hair Javier Más Wardrobe stylism Aroa Sansano Model Helen Eller [Traffic Models agency] Post-production Mónica Chamorro Special thanks to the Hotel Huerto del Cura as well as the Botanical Garden Huerto del Cura in Elche (Alicante), Spain

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