ICONS – Alan Flusser
For the second installment in the ICONS series, I popped into the Alan Flusser Custom Shop for a chat with the master himself. Like Leonard Logsdail, Mr. Flusser’s shop is housed above street-level in Midtown Manhattan, and from the moment you step out of the elevator it feels more like a Deco gentleman’s club than a place to buy suits.
Cordovan Week – Color
It’s Friday, so time for some seriously lust-worthy shoes. Everyone knows cordovan comes in Colors #6 and #8. This is in fact responsible for the slippage of the word cordovan into being used for any shoe with a reddish-burgundy hue. The shoe fanatics know about the harder-to-find Ravello and Cigar, and things progress from there.
Cordovan Week – Care
Just as you don’t care for a cotton poplin shirt the same way you would care for a flannel coat, you don’t treat cordovan like other leathers. Giving them a good cleaning and polish starts relatively the same way, with a vigorous brushing, but then you can pull out your trusty deer bone. Yes a dear bone.
Cordovan Week – Production
Cordovan is one of those fanatic-inspiring phenomena. When talking about it, words like “love” and “obsessed” are run-of-the-mill. But, even with all the ink spilled (or pixels in many cases), I’m yet to find a single source that covers all the cordovan basics. Here’s my attempt at solving the problem – Cordovan Week on Simply Refined.
ICONS – Leonard Logsdail
Welcome to ICONS, a new video feature on Simply Refined. Part of dressing well, or doing anything well for that matter, is having people to learn from. So we’ve decided to seek out the most interesting modern ICONS to share their stories, opinions, and quirks for the betterment of the rest of us.
