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Bright Green, Bright Yellow

July 20, 2021

by Réginald-Jérôme de Mans.   A romantic restaurant six years ago. Thin and nervous, recovering from the worst illness of my life. On one side of us, a fireplace roars and crackles, making up for t...

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Jean Dujardin, Icon of Impermanence

July 06, 2021

by Réginald-Jérôme de Mans.  There’s a fantastic new podcast Kill James Bond! providing a critical eye on the tired old cliché and media it inspired, from the Ennio Morricone-scored, Neil Connery-s...

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Notes From the Ground Floor

June 22, 2021

by Réginald-Jérôme de Mans.  As I get older, it’s amusing to recognize that so many of the pithy quips and sayings I have derive from a small set of catchy past readings, however shallow my culture. 

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Alternative Style Icon: Jimmy Wang Yu in The Man From Hong Kong

June 08, 2021

by Réginald-Jérôme de Mans.  There are things we always want to reclaim from our past, even from its most confused, bittersweet moments. In my case, the thoughtful moments driving home late at nigh...

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Book Review: Richard James Savile Row

May 25, 2021

by Réginald-Jérôme de Mans.  As Troy McClure said about playing the human in a musical adaptation of Planet of the Apes, reviewing this book is “the role I was born to play!”

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Fashion Survivor

May 11, 2021

by Réginald-Jérôme de Mans.  “It’s STYLE not fashion!” enough of us have trumpeted, reflexively, defensively, guiltily, at surprised interlocutors who have confused our interest in clothes no one e...

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The Old Desi

April 27, 2021

by Réginald-Jérôme de Mans.   A friend (why not? To paraphrase Rjmbaud, Réginald-Jérôme de Mans est un autre) writes: “Live to be a hundred, I’ll never forget it. In a cheesy import superstore, the...

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Pieces of Self

April 20, 2021

by Réginald-Jérôme de Mans.  On a tip from the Instagram stories of my friend Paul Fournier, I picked up Nishiguchi Essentials 100, a bilingual compendium of the 100 articles of clothing and access...

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